'Presenting' the past: Perspectives on time for accounting and management history

Accounting, Business and Financial History

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-27

  Parker, Lee D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Continuity; Discontinuity; Future; Historiography; Past; Present; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642283531     PISSN: 09585206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0958520042000176902     Document Type: Article

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