Downward accountability for a natural disaster recovery effort: EVIDENCE and issues from Australia's Black Saturday

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 633-651

  Taylor, Dennis ^a   Tharapos, Meredith ^a   Sidaway, Shannon ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Closeness; Downward accountability; Empowerment; Natural disaster; Non government organizations; Readability; Site of audiencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927174027     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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