Is time spent, passed or counted? The missing link between time and accounting history

Accounting Historians Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 185-208

  Quattrone, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85009476875     PISSN: 01484184     EISSN: 23274468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/0148-4184.32.1.185     Document Type: Article

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