Attitudes to the development and implementation of social and environmental accounting in Thailand

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1035-1057

  Kuasirikun, Nongnooch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Interview; Questionnaire; Social and environmental accounting; Thai accounting profession

Indexed keywords

EID: 20344374137     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2004.02.004     Document Type: Article

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