Accounting education and research: Zeff's warnings reconsidered

British Accounting Review

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 291-312

  Dewing, Ian P ^a   Russell, Peter O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0032165927     PISSN: 08908389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bare.1998.0072     Document Type: Article

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