Enron: Widespread myopia

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 539-557

  Chabrak, Nihel ^a   Daidj, Nabyla ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS   (France)

Author keywords

Accounting practices; Alienation; Capitalism; Contradictions; Diversification; Enron; Ideology; Reification; Resource based and competence based approaches; Rhetoric; Strategic diagnosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250668049     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2005.10.004     Document Type: Article

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