Target Costing: Uncharted Research Territory

Handbooks of Management Accounting Research

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 507-530

  Ansari, Shahid ^a   Bell, Jan ^b   Okano, Hiroshi ^c  

^a BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

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EID: 41149097758     PISSN: 17513243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1751-3243(06)02002-5     Document Type: Review

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