Accounting textbooks: Exploring the production of a cultural and political artifact

Accounting Education

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 243-260

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

accreditation; hegemony; ideology; Textbooks

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952560701     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639280600850679     Document Type: Article

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