Accounting and the welfare state: The missing link

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 134-152

  Oehr, Tim Frederik ^a   Zimmermann, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accounting regulation; Institutional theory; State intervention; Welfare states

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857444460     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2011.11.010     Document Type: Article

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