Consultancy outputs and the purification of accounting technologies

Accounting, Organizations and Society

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 524-545

  Christensen, Mark ^a   Skærbæk, Peter ^b  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

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EID: 77955088310     PISSN: 03613682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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