Moral indifference and corporate manslaughter: Compromising safety in the name of profit?

Research Handbook on Corporate Legal Responsibility

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 177-193

  Pemberton, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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