Whose voice is it anyway? Rethinking the oral history method in accounting research on race, ethnicity and gender

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1346-1369

  Kim, Soon Nam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic authority; Accounting history; Authenticity; Ethnicity; Gender; Oral history; Power relationship; Race; Shared authorship; Silence

Indexed keywords

EID: 55449107809     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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