The search for credible information in social and environmental global governance: The Kosher label

Business and Politics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Starobin, Shana ^a   Weinthal, Erika ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

certification; credible information; Kosher label; regulation; social capital; trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149457921     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1322     Document Type: Conference Paper

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