Adapting financial rationality: Is a new paradigm emerging?

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 724-742

  Soufian, Mona ^a   Forbes, William ^b   Hudson, Robert ^c  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive market hypothesis; Critical; Efficient market hypothesis; Public interest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84909611626     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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