Accountants for the 21st Century, where are you? A five-year study of accounting students' personality preferences

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 511-537

  Briggs, Susan P ^a   Copeland, Scott ^a   Haynes, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accountants; Gender; Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI); Personality; Psychological type; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250645033     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2006.01.013     Document Type: Article

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