A critique on the classification of contemporary accounting: Towards a political economy of classification - The search for ownership

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 131-153

  Boczko, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1006/cpac.1998.0329     Document Type: Article

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