Accounting history and the emperor’s new clothes: A response to “Knowing more as Knowing less?…”

Accounting Historians Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 159-171

  Tyson, Thomas N ^a  

^a ST JOHN FISHER COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 85009416128     PISSN: 01484184     EISSN: 23274468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/0148-4184.27.1.159     Document Type: Article

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