"A necessary supplement": What the United Nations global compact is and is not

Business and Society

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 511-537

  Rasche, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Public private partnerships; Regulation; Stakeholder engagement; United Nations Global Compact

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449097646     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650309332378     Document Type: Article

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