Watchdogs beyond control? The accountability of accounting standards organizations

Organizing Transnational Accountability

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 98-113

  Kerwer, Dieter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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