Enhancing global governance: Corporate social responsibility and the international trade and investment framework

Hard Choices, Soft Law: Voluntary Standards in Global Trade, Environment and Social Governance

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 288-322

  Wilkie, Christopher ^a  

^a Department of International Trade ^*  (Canada)

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EID: 85082461013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315253633-30     Document Type: Chapter

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