Governing by numbers: Audit culture, rankings and the new world order

Social Anthropology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 22-28

  Shore, Cris ^a   Wright, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Audit culture; Audit effects; Global rankings; Governance; Indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923344101     PISSN: 09640282     EISSN: 14698676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12098     Document Type: Article

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