'Above the fray': Interests, discourse and legitimacy in the audit field

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 783-802

  Whittle, Andrea ^a   Carter, Chris ^b   Mueller, Frank ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Discourse analysis; Institutional theory; Interests; Legitimacy; Stake

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919433539     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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