Casemix accounting systems and medical coding: Organisational actors balanced on "leaky black boxes"

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 79-100

  Lowe, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Accounting; Black box; Case studies; Coding; Health care; New Zealand

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035578897     PISSN: 09534814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09534810110367110     Document Type: Article

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