On the shoulders of giants: undertaking a structured literature review in accounting

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 767-801

  Massaro, Maurizio ^a   Dumay, John ^b   Guthrie, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Critique; Reliability; Structured literature review; Traditional authorship literature review; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981517056     PISSN: 09513574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/AAAJ-01-2015-1939     Document Type: Article

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