Audit Quality and Professional Self-Regulation: A Social Dilemma Perspective and Laboratory Investigation

Auditing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages

  Grant, Julia ^a   Bricker, Robert ^a   Shiptsova, Rimma ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit quality; Professional self regulation; Social dilemma

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542677588     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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