The colonisation of strategy: Financialisation in a post-privatisation context

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 967-985

  Carter, Chris ^a   Mueller, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33751088518     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2005.08.001     Document Type: Article

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