Spanish healthcare public private partnerships: The 'Alzira model'

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 533-549

  Acerete, Basilio ^a   Stafford, Anne ^b   Stapleton, Pamela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Healthcare; PPPs; Public sector; Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051584747     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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