Why should they care? The role of institutional investors in the market for corporate global responsibility

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2015-2031

  Clark, Gordon L ^a   Hebb, Tessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; INVESTMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 28144451452     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a38116     Document Type: Article

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