Identifying and controlling risk: The problem of uncertainty in the private finance initiative in the UK's National Health Service

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 40-78

  Broadbent, Jane ^a   Gill, Jas ^a   Laughlin, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting logic; Decision making; PFI; Risk; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148971283     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2006.04.006     Document Type: Article

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