THE LOCAL AUTHORITY ANNUAL REPORT IN THE UK: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF ACCOUNTING COMMUNICATION AND DEMOCRACY

作者: J. Haslam , P. Butterworth , R. H. Gray

DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-0408.1989.TB00309.X

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摘要: The paper reports upon an exploratory examination of certain aspects the role played by Annual Report in communication process between UK Local Authorities and general public. concentrates on one specific formal (as opposed to informal) channel adopts a loose framework reviewed Adelberg, 1983), focusing message encoding/decoding (readability); destination (availability reports) discovery use.

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