The firm as an inspector: Private ordering and political rules

Business and Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Heritier, Adrienne ^a   Mueller Debus, Anna K ^a   Thauer, Christian R ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental quality standards; Governance; Industry; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249177294     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1273     Document Type: Article

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