Designing accountability: The managerial semiotics project

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-22

  Armstrong, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0034134980     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cpac.1998.0305     Document Type: Article

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