Beyond compliance: Explaining business participation in voluntary environmental programs

Explaining Compliance: Business Responses to Regulation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 139-169

  Borck, Jonathan C ^a   Coglianese, Cary ^b  

^a ANALYSIS GROUP   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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