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Accounting Research: Relevance Lost
Journal Title: FINANCIAL REPORTING 
Author/s: Andrew Higson, Rasha Kassem 
Year:  2016 Issue: 1 Language: English 
Pages:  18 Pg. 59-76 FullText PDF:  214 KB
DOI:  10.3280/FR2016-001004
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Keywords: Research, publications, impact, pseudoscience

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Andrew Higson, Rasha Kassem, in "FINANCIAL REPORTING" 1/2016, pp. 59-76, DOI:10.3280/FR2016-001004

   

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