The challenge of empirical research on business compliance in regulatory capitalism

Annual Review of Law and Social Science

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 45-70

  Parker, Christine ^a   Nielsen, Vibeke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Business regulation; Social science methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 73349084754     PISSN: 15503585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.093008.131555     Document Type: Article

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