After the “quiet revolution”: the self‐regulation of Ontario contract security agenciesFootnote1

The first two authors contributed equally to the theoretical and substantive development of the article and lead authorship rotates with each paper derived from this research collaboration. For this particular article, the other two authors—Kelly Greenfield and Phil Boyle—contributed equally to the development, implementation and management of the survey methodology, and wrote the methodology section of the article. All the authors would like to thank Steven Hutchinson for his contribution to the completion of this work, as well as the reviewers for their helpful comments. Research for this article was supported by a three‐year research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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