Knowing efficiency: The enactment of efficiency in efficiency auditing

Accounting, Organizations and Society

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 333-362

  Radcliffe, Vaughan S ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditing; Canada; Efficiency; Ethnography; Governmentality; Practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000239913     PISSN: 03613682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-3682(98)00067-1     Document Type: Article

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