Taming the untamable: Planning, programming and budgeting and the normalization of war

Accounting, Organizations and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 501-519

  Chwastiak, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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EID: 0035429732     PISSN: 03613682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-3682(01)00010-1     Document Type: Article

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