Creative team climate in an international accounting office: an exploratory study in Saudi Arabia

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-18

  Al Beraidi, Abdullah ^a   Rickards, Tudor ^b  

^a Buraydah College of Technology Saudi Arabia   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting firms; Auditing profession; Creativity; Leadership; Saudi Arabia; Team building

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986133127     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900310454156     Document Type: Article

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