Custom service: Application and tests of resource-partitioning theory among Dutch auditing firms from 1896 to 1992

Organization Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 355-381

  Boone, Christophe ^a   Brdcheler, Vera ^a   Carroll, Glenn R ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit industry; Organizational ecology; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039004154     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840600212003     Document Type: Article

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