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Accountability in Crisis: The Sponsorship Scandal and the Office of the Comptroller General in Canada

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  • Vaughan Radcliffe

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  • Clinton Free & Vaughan Radcliffe, 2009. "Accountability in Crisis: The Sponsorship Scandal and the Office of the Comptroller General in Canada," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 84(2), pages 189-208, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:84:y:2009:i:2:p:189-208
    DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-9681-8
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    1. Radcliffe, Vaughan S., 1998. "Efficiency audit: An assembly of rationalities and programmes," Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, vol. 23(4), pages 377-410, May.
    2. Radcliffe, Vaughan S., 1999. "Knowing efficiency: the enactment of efficiency in efficiency auditing," Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, vol. 24(4), pages 333-362, May.
    3. John Williamson, 1994. "The Political Economy of Policy Reform," Peterson Institute Press: All Books, Peterson Institute for International Economics, number 68, April.
    4. Eleanor D. Glor, 2001. "Has Canada Adopted The New Public Management?," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 3(1), pages 121-130, January.
    5. Power, Michael K., 2003. "Auditing and the production of legitimacy," Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, vol. 28(4), pages 379-394, May.
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    2. Clinton Free & Vaughan Radcliffe & Brent White, 2013. "Crisis, Committees and Consultants: The Rise of Value-For-Money Auditing in the Federal Public Sector in Canada," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 113(3), pages 441-459, March.
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    5. Yvonne Joyce, 2020. "Building Trust in Crisis Management: A Study of Insolvency Practitioners and the Role of Accounting Information and Processes," Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 37(3), pages 1622-1657, September.
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