Labor's changing responses to management rhetorics: A study of accounting-based incentive plans during the first half of the 20th century

Accounting Historians Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 133-162

  Oakes, Leslie S ^a   Covaleski, Mark A ^b   Dirsmith, Mark W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85009420730     PISSN: 01484184     EISSN: 23274468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/0148-4184.26.2.133     Document Type: Article

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