'Economic value added' as ideology through a critical lens: Towards a pedagogy for management fashion?

Accounting Education

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 343-367

  Amernic, Joel H ^a   Losell, D L ^a   Craig, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pedagogy Ideology Value ADDED Accounting Management Critical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992884287     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639280010033286     Document Type: Article

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