Social justice in a cold climate: Could social accounting make a difference?

Accounting Forum

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 455-473

  Ball, Amanda ^a,b,c   Seal, Will ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fairness; Justice; Local government; Public sector; Social accounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 26944434303     PISSN: 01559982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2005.08.001     Document Type: Article

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