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Stakeholder Theory in Corporate Law : Has It Got What It Takes ?

@inproceedings{Wyant2009StakeholderTI,
  title={Stakeholder Theory in Corporate Law : Has It Got What It Takes ?},
  author={Michelle A. Wyant and Rachel Feltman and Christopher L. Rathlev},
  year={2009}
}
The United Nations (“UN”) adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (“ICCPR”) in 1966 and officially implemented it in 1976 to ensure, among other guarantees, that no 1 The author is an American-Muslim human rights activist, writer, and lecturer on American-Islamic issues. He received his Bachelors of Science in Marketing from the University of Illinois at Chicago (2006) and is completing his Juris Doctorate from the University of Richmond School of Law (2012), where he… 
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