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Special Section: Accounting Insights from the Healthcare Sector, Guest Editors: Eddy Cardinaels and Naomi S. Soderstrom

Cost (In)Efficiency and Institutional Pressures in Nursing Home Chains

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Pages 687-718 | Received 29 Jul 2014, Accepted 04 Mar 2016, Published online: 11 May 2016

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