The politics of accounting regulation: Organizing transnational standard setting in financial reporting

The Politics of Accounting Regulation: Organizing Transnational Standard Setting in Financial Reporting

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Botzem, Sebastian ^a  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

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EID: 84873149724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781781001066     Document Type: Book

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