Corporate Lobbying in Antidumping Cases: Looking into the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 467-478

  Lee, Seung Hyun ^a   Baik, Yoon Suk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

antidumping; Byrd amendment; lobbying; protection

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957225691     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-010-0478-1     Document Type: Article

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