This contract dispute enhances our understanding of agency relationships and fosters greater recognition of the limitations and hazards of historical research using an agency literature framework. The accounting records, related memoranda, and reports submitted also provide insight into the nature and character of early defense contract accounting and relationships between these contractors and the government. Difficulties confronted by the Navy in securing a contractor; contract terms; civilian contractor's project accounting records, related memoranda, and correspondence with naval authorities are reviewed. The post-contract correspondence provides insight into how early 19th century government contractors attempted to resolve disputes with the government.
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1 June 1995
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June 01 1995
THE 1826 CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES AT THE PENSACOLA NAVAL STATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH USING AGENCY THEORY
Richard V. Calvasina
Richard V. Calvasina
UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA
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Received:
July 01 1994
Revision Received:
February 01 1995
Accepted:
October 01 1995
Online ISSN: 2327-4468
Print ISSN: 0148-4184
© 1995 American Accounting Association
1995
Accounting Historians Journal (1995) 22 (1): 35–55.
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O. Ronald Gray, Richard V. Calvasina; THE 1826 CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES AT THE PENSACOLA NAVAL STATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH USING AGENCY THEORY. Accounting Historians Journal 1 June 1995; 22 (1): 35–55. https://doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.22.1.35
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