CORPORATE PROFIT AND NUCLEAR SAFETY: STRATEGY AT NORTHEAST UTILITIES IN THE 1990s

Corporate Profit and Nuclear Safety: Strategy at Northeast Utilities in the 1990s

Volumn , Issue , 2021, Pages 1-156

  MacAvoy, Paul W ^a   Rosenthal, Jean W ^a  

^a YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

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