Books to be practiced: Memory, the power of the visual, and the success of accounting

Accounting, Organizations and Society

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 85-118

  Quattrone, Paolo ^a  

^a CHRIST CHURCH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 56949093865     PISSN: 03613682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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