Productivity change, technical progress, and relative efficiency change in the public accounting industry

Management Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 291-304

  Banker, Rajiv D ^a   Chang, Hsihui ^a   Natarajan, Ram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditing; Management advisory services; Productivity change; Public accounting; Relative efficiency; Taxation services; Technical progress

Indexed keywords

AUDITING; MANAGEMENT ADVISORY SERVICES (MAS); PRODUCTIVITY CHANGES; PUBLIC ACCOUNTING; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; TAXATION SERVICES; TECHNICAL PROGRESS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; TAXATION;

COST ACCOUNTING;

EID: 14944351027     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1040.0324     Document Type: Article

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