Establishing additionality: Fraud vulnerabilities in the clean development mechanism

Accounting Research Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 243-253

  Drew, Jacqueline M ^a   Drew, Michael E ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fraud; Pollution; Project management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953171181     PISSN: 10309616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10309611011092574     Document Type: Article

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