Walking the talk(s): Organisational narratives of integrated reporting

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1090-1119

  Higgins, Colin ^a   Stubbs, Wendy ^b   Love, Tyron ^c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Institutionalization; Integrated reporting; Management sense making; Narratives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924022481     PISSN: 09513574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/AAAJ-04-2013-1303     Document Type: Article

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