Transnational Governance of Workers' Rights: Outlining a Research Agenda

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 169-188

  Egels Zandén, Niklas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Code of conduct; Corporate social responsibility; Governance; International framework agreement; Labour practice; Non governmental organisation; Transnational corporation; Union; Workers' rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 67949097282     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-9877-y     Document Type: Article

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