An autoethnography of accounting knowledge production: Serendipitous and fortuitous choices for understanding our social world

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1054-1079

  Davie, Shanta S K ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoethnography; Fijian pine forests; Forest accounting; Knowledge production; Methodological choices; Research in accounting; Silences in accounting; Theorising

Indexed keywords

EID: 52049104463     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

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