Corporate awakening - Why (some) corporations embrace public-private partnerships

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 216-229

  LaFrance, Julie ^a   Lehmann, Martin ^b  

^a WORLD BANK GROUP   (United States)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

CSR; Legitimacy; Myanmar; Public private partnerships; Stakeholder; UNESCO

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 22744440934     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.471     Document Type: Article

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