Food for Thought? A Rejoinder on Peer-review and RAE2008 Evidence

Accounting Education

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 561-573

  Morris, Huw ^a   Harvey, Charles ^b   Kelly, Aidan ^c   Rowlinson, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting education; accounting history; journal quality lists; research assessment exercise (RAE)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855422644     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2011.634215     Document Type: Article

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