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Part 2 - Quantitative Approaches to Measuring Corporate Compliance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2022

Melissa Rorie
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Benjamin van Rooij
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University of Amsterdam, School of Law
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Measuring Compliance
Assessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct Prevention
, pp. 91 - 186
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Print publication year: 2022

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