Using the ethnostatistics methodology to reconcile rhetoric and reality: an examination of the management release of Enron’s year end 2000 results

Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1-16

  Smith, William L ^a   Boje, David M ^a   Gardner, Carolyn ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RADFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Financial reporting; Methodology; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993088458     PISSN: 11766093     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/11766090410813337     Document Type: Article

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