Reflecting on the production of intellectual capital visualisations

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1161-1186

  Cuganesan, Suresh ^a   Dumay, John C ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Financial services; Intellectual capital; Visual media

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949102761     PISSN: 09513574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513570910999274     Document Type: Article

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