The politics of the changing forms of accounting: A field study of strategy translation in a Danish government-owned company under privatisation

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-40

  Skærbæk, Peter ^a   Melander, Preben ^a  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accounting; Organizational change; Privatization

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646533290     PISSN: 09513574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513570410525193     Document Type: Review

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