Taking pluralism seriously: Embedded moralities in management accounting and control systems

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-147

  Dillard, Jesse ^a   Roslender, Robin ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agonistic pluralism; Ethics; Heteroglossic accounting; Levinas; Structuration theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951555233     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2010.06.014     Document Type: Article

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