Constructing meaning in the service of power: An analysis of the typical modes of ideology in accounting textbooks

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 896-909

  Ferguson, John ^a   Collison, David ^b   Power, David ^b   Stevenson, Lorna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting education; Discourse analysis; Ideology; Maximization of shareholder wealth; Neo classical economics; Textbooks

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350537032     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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