Governing health and safety at lower tiers of the computer industry global value chain

Regulation and Governance

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 243-258

  Nadvi, Khalid ^a   Raj Reichert, Gale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer industry; Global value chains; Labor standards; Malaysia; Regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941022521     PISSN: 17485983     EISSN: 17485991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rego.12079     Document Type: Article

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