Recognition: An information content perspective

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 223-242

  Liang, Pierre Jinghong ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0142197510     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2001.15.3.223     Document Type: Review

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