Company Delistings from the UN Global Compact: Limited Business Demand or Domestic Governance Failure?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 331-349

  Knudsen, Jette Steen ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

business government interaction and relations; corporate social responsibility; country variables; global institutions; political economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053330432     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0875-0     Document Type: Article

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