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Social Accounting Research as If The World Matters

An essay in postalgia and a new absurdism

Rob Gray CSEAR Gateway School of Management University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, Scotland, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Jesse Dillard Portland State University, Portland, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Crawford Spence John Molson School of Business University of Concordia, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 545-573 | Published online: 20 Aug 2009

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