Making Sense of Social Practice: Theoretical Pluralism in Public Sector Accounting Research: A Comment

Financial Accountability and Management

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 99-110

  Modell, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

critical realism; paradigms; public sector; relevance; theoretical pluralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887537017     PISSN: 02674424     EISSN: 14680408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/faam.12004     Document Type: Article

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