Accounting for the Bhopal disaster: Footnotes and photographs

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 953-972

  Matilal, Sumohon ^a   Höpfl, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting; India; Man made disasters; Narratives; Photographs; Visual media

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349632162     PISSN: 09513574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513570910980472     Document Type: Article

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