The power of transnational private governance: Financialization and the IASB

Business and Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Nlke, Andreas ^a,b   Perry, James ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Financialization; IASB; Varieties of capitalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949096403     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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