Governing through standards: Networks, failure and auditing

Sociological Research Online

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Spencer, Dale ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apparatus; Auditing; Failure; Networks; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956310839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13607804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5153/sro.2223     Document Type: Article

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