The political economy of International Accounting Standards

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 559-586

  Perry, James ^a   Nölke, Andreas ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accounting; Capital; Financialization; International Accounting Standards Board; Private authority; Varieties of capitalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749674496     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290600839790     Document Type: Review

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