Investigating Enron as a public private partnership

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 446-466

  Baker, C Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance sheets; Financing; Partnership; Privatization; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986146385     PISSN: 09513574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513570310482327     Document Type: Article

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