Accounting for UK rail freight track charges: Privatisation, politics and the pursuit of private sector vested interests

Accounting Forum

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 403-425

  Stittle, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Rail freight track charges; Railway industry; UK

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744479440     PISSN: 01559982     EISSN: 14676303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2004.05.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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