Accounting as a legitimising device in voluntary price agreements: The Dundee jute industry, 1945-1960

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 415-433

  Masrani, Swapnesh ^a   McKiernan, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting; Collective strategy; Dundee jute industry; Industrial decline; Institutional theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958163716     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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