Exploring inclusion, exclusion and ethnicities in the institutional structures of UK accountancy

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 482-497

  Johnston, Roger ^a   Kyriacou, Orthodoxia ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting; Ethnicity; Gender; Institutional structures; Oral history

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054886217     PISSN: 20407149     EISSN: 17587093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02610151111157701     Document Type: Article

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