State privatization and the unrelenting expansion of neoliberalism: The case of the Greek financial crisis

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 423-445

  Morales, Jérémy ^a   Gendron, Yves ^b   Guénin Paracini, Henri ^b  

^a ESCP EUROPE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Fraud; Greek financial crisis; Neoliberalism; New public management; State privatization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908597379     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2013.08.007     Document Type: Article

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