New institutional accounting and IFRS

Accounting and Business Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 309-328

  Wysocki, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting; IFRS; Incentives; Institutions; Mandatory disclosure; Political economy; Regulation; Standard setting

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054817563     PISSN: 00014788     EISSN: 21594260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2011.575298     Document Type: Conference Paper

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