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Trade Union and Management Uses of Company Accounting Information

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Accounting Information Disclosure and Collective Bargaining

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The reader will no doubt have observed that, so far in the book, we have been mainly concerned with the issue of what information should be disclosed in bargaining. In addition, because of the lack of sufficiently specific predictive models, we have been treating ‘information’ as if it were some homogeneous commodity, i.e. we have been concerned about the possible effects of a change in the general level of information disclosure rather than its constituents.

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  1. University of Hull, UK

    B. J. Foley (Lecturer in Economics)

  2. University of Leeds, UK

    K. T. Maunders (Professor of Business Finance and Accounting)

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Foley, B.J., Maunders, K.T. (1977). Trade Union and Management Uses of Company Accounting Information. In: Accounting Information Disclosure and Collective Bargaining. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81535-7_5

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