Do organizational life-cycle and venture capital investors affect the management control systems used by the firm?

Advances in Accounting

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 128-138

  Silvola, Hanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

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EID: 46749124657     PISSN: 08826110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adiac.2008.05.013     Document Type: Article

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