Economies of scale and scope in Taiwan's CPA service industry

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 409-414

  Cheng, Ting Wong ^b   Wang, Kuo Liang ^b   Weng, Chih Chiang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMY OF SCALE; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; SERVICE SECTOR;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0034116003     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135048500351375     Document Type: Article

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