Management Accounting, Economic Reasoning and the New Public Management Reforms

Handbooks of Management Accounting Research

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 1371-1383

  Kurunmäki, Liisa ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 66049119079     PISSN: 17513243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1751-3243(07)03009-X     Document Type: Review

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