The concentration of local markets: A study of accounting, advertising and law

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 88-99

  Penno, Mark ^a   Walther, Beverly R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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