Bargaining for corporate responsibility: The global and the local of framework agreements in the USA

Business and Politics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1-31

  Fichter, Michael ^a   Stevis, Dimitris ^b   Helfen, Markus ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

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EID: 84871449939     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bap-2012-0017     Document Type: Article

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