Social and environmental accounting, organisational change and management accounting: A processual view

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 349-365

  Contrafatto, Massimo ^a   Burns, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Institutions; Management accounting; Organisational change; Processes of change; Profit seeking; Social and environmental accounting and reporting (SEAR)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888429563     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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