The role of actor-networks and boundary objects in management accounting change: a field study of an implementation of activity-based costing

Accounting, Organizations and Society - Tập 26 Số 3 - Trang 237-269 - 2001
Michael Briers1, Wai Fong Chua1
1University of New South Wales, School of Accounting, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

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