Accounting and the economic nature of the firm as an entity

The Firm as an Entity: Implications for Economics, Accounting and the Law

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 237-265

  Biondi, Yuri ^a  

^a University of Paris Cité   (France)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203931110     Document Type: Chapter

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