Back to the future: New potential for structuration theory in management accounting research?

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 177-192

  Coad, Alan F ^a   Herbert, Ian P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Management accounting research; Structuration theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651250092     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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