New plots are badly needed in finance: Accounting for the financial crisis of 20072010

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 756-775

  Czarniawska, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Financial performance; Interpretive templates; Narrative approaches to accounting; Narratives; Perception; Popular culture; Strong plots

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863445324     PISSN: 09513574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513571211234240     Document Type: Article

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