Accounting change in Italian local governments: What's beyond managerial fashion?

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 17, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 154-174

  Caccia, Laura ^a   Steccolini, Ileana ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accounting; Accounting change; Italian local government; Italian public sector reform; Local government; Managerial accounting; Organizational change; Public sector; Public sector accounting; Public sector reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344466112     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2003.05.004     Document Type: Article

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