Business ethics research with an accounting focus: A bibliometric analysis from 1988 to 2007

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137-160

  Uysal, Özgür Özmen ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Accounting ethics; Citation analysis; Document co citation analysis; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949913311     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0187-9     Document Type: Article

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