Corporate characteristics, political embeddedness and environmental pollution by large U.S. corporations

Social Forces

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 947-970

  Prechel, Harland ^a   Zheng, Lu ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84872503435     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: 15347605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sf/sor026     Document Type: Article

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