Fearful asymmetry: The consumption of accounting signs in the Algoma Steel pension bailout

Accounting, Organizations and Society

Volumn 33, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 756-782

  Graham, Cameron ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 53949118400     PISSN: 03613682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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