Understanding Student Plagiarism: An Empirical Study in Accounting Education

Accounting Education

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-37

  Guo, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting education; Structural equation modelling; Student plagiarism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951928396     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2010.534577     Document Type: Article

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