Open book accounting in practice – exploring the faces of openness

Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-96

  Roberts, Hanno ^a   Suomala, Petri ^a   Lahikainen, Tommi ^a   LylyYrjänäinen, Jouni ^a   Paranko, Jari ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accountancy; Budgetary control; Open management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993093656     PISSN: 11766093     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/11766091011034280     Document Type: Article

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