American Better Business Bureaus, the Truth-in-Advertising Movement, and the Complexities of Legitimizing Business Self-Regulation over the Long Term
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- Melanie Coni-Zimmer & Klaus Dieter Wolf & Peter Collin, 2017. "Editorial to the Issue on Legitimization of Private and Public Regulation: Past and Present," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(1), pages 1-5.
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anti-fraud regulation; Better Business Bureaus; ethnography of regulatory governance; history of self-regulation; institutional reputation; legitimization trade-offs;All these keywords.
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