Motives of corporate political donations: Industry regulation, subjective judgement and the origins of pragmatic and ideological corporations

• المؤلف الرئيسي: HARRIGAN, Nicholas M.
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• الموضوعات: Business; industry; politics; regulation; donations; elites; agency; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics; Sociology; Work, Economy and Organizations
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2276; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3533/viewcontent/Harrigan__MotivesCorporatePoliticalDonations_2017_pp.pdf

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