Privatised ethics: The case of the regulated utilities

Current Issues in Business Ethics

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 153-169

  Brigley, Stephen ^a   Vass, Peter ^b  

^a Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

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