Determinants of contract terms for professional services

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-145

  Homburg, Carsten ^a   Stebel, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b PricewaterhouseCoopers AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cost contracts; Customer integration; Double moral hazard; Incentives; Professional services

Indexed keywords

EID: 64749088638     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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