Critically Appreciating Social Accounting and Reporting in the Arab MiddleEast: A Postcolonial Perspective

Advances in International Accounting

Volumn 20, Issue , 2007, Pages 105-177

  Kamla, Rania ^a  

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EID: 34250704737     PISSN: 08973660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0897-3660(07)20005-4     Document Type: Review

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