The causes and consequences of private food governance

Business and Politics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Fuchs, Doris ^a   Kalfagianni, Agni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

private governance; regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149420066     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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