Promoting transnational professionalism: Forays of the “Big Firm” accounting community into France

Transnational Communities: Shaping Global Economic Governance

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 174-196

  Ramirez, Carlos ^a  

^a HEC PARIS   (France)

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EID: 84881814254     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511778100.009     Document Type: Chapter

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