Une revue de quelques aspects de la comptabilité positive et de sa critique

Dang Pham and Veronique Nguyen

No 661, HEC Research Papers Series from HEC Paris

Abstract: After a brief description of positive accounting and its specific characteristics, different aspects of the controversies related to the work of Watts and Zimmerman are reviewed and classified. Then, we examine the social parameters which resulted in the birth, development and growth of this stream of research in the USA.

Keywords: positive accounting; Watts and Zimmerman; accounting theory; epistemology; accounting research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 1998-09-01
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