Accounting in networks - The transaction cost economics perspective

Accounting in Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 235-268

  Anderson, Shannon ^a,b   Dekker, Henri ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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