The Mad Hatter's corporate tea party

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 18, Issue , 2003, Pages 505-516

  Leung, Philomena ^a   Cooper, Barry J ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accountancy; Corporate governance; Ethics; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986169808     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900310482641     Document Type: Article

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