Pricing and supplier concentration in the private client segment of the audit market: Market power or competition?

International Journal of Accounting

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 431-455

  Willekens, Marleen ^a   Achmadi, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Audit pricing; Market concentration; Price competition; Private companies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344185342     PISSN: 10944060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intacc.2003.09.002     Document Type: Article

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