An institutional perspective on the transfer of accounting knowledge: A case study

Accounting Education

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 329-346

  Bennett, Martin ^a   Bouma, Jan Jaap ^b,c   Ciccozzi, Elena ^d  

^a Cheltenham Gloucester College of Higher Education   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d Division of Technology Industry and Economics   (France)

Author keywords

Aid programmes; Environmental accounting; Evaluation; Institutional theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248344102     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0963928042000273807     Document Type: Article

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