Policy, economic, and business challenges of media ownership regulation

Journal of Media Business Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1-17

  Harcourt, Alison ^a   Picard, Robert G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ownership; Pluralism; Policy; Regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007883141     PISSN: 16522354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16522354.2009.11073486     Document Type: Article

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