To comply or not to comply-that isn't the question: How organizations construct the meaning of compliance

Explaining Compliance: Business Responses to Regulation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 103-122

  Edelman, Lauren B ^a   Talesh, Shauhin A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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