Costing, pricing and politics in the British steel industry, 1918-1967

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-49

  Edwards, John Richard ^a   Boyns, Trevor ^a   Matthews, Mark ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting change; Steel industry; Uniform costing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037374513     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1044-5005(02)00033-1     Document Type: Review

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