Accounting for the growth and transformation of Chinese businesses and the Chinese economy: Implications for transitional and development economics

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 665-694

  Suzuki, Tomo ^a   Yan, Yan ^b   Chen, Bingyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Shanghai National Accounting Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Accountics; China; Economic development; Financial institutions; National Accounting Institute; Strategy and leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648941227     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwm016     Document Type: Article

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