Other lives in accounting: Critical reflections on oral history methodology in action

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 221-231

  Haynes, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting; Feminism; Narrative; Oral history; Reflexivity; Research methodology; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349120587     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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