Compliance obstacles to competitiveness

Corporate Governance

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 612-622

  Doyle, Eleanor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Competitive strategy; Consumption; Production management; Regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148943853     PISSN: 14720701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14720700710827194     Document Type: Article

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