Auditors' identification with their clients and its effect on auditors' objectivity

Auditing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1-24

  Bamber, E Michael ^a   Iyer, Venkataraman M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditor objectivity; Client identification; Professional identification; Social identity theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 40249110057     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2007.26.2.1     Document Type: Article

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