Corporate compliance systems: Could they make any difference?

Administration and Society

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-37

  Parker, Christine ^a,c   Nielsen, Vibeke Lehmann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business regulation; Competition law; Complaints handling systems; Consumer protection law; Corporate compliance; Corporate compliance programmes; Corporate compliance systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 59349098581     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: 15523039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095399708328869     Document Type: Article

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