The threat of ethical accountants: An application of foucault's concept of ethics to accounting education and some thoughts on ethically educating for the other

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 833-866

  McPhail, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1006/cpac.1998.0277     Document Type: Article

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