Completing the triangle: Taylorism and the paradigms

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 597-624

  Fleischman, Richard K ^a  

^a JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting history; Management history; Marxian economics; Rationalization; Scientific management; Standard costing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986159920     PISSN: 09513574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513570010353729     Document Type: Review

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