Accounting and the economic analysis of the firm as an entity

Economics of the Firm: Analysis, Evolution, History

Volumn 9780203966396, Issue , 2006, Pages 65-87

  Biondi, Yuri ^a  

^a University of Paris Cité   (France)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203966396     Document Type: Chapter

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