Fear, duty, and regulatory compliance: Lessons from three research projects

Explaining Compliance: Business Responses to Regulation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 37-58

  Kagan, Robert A ^a   Gunningham, Neil ^b   Thornton, Dorothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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