Gender mainstreaming and corporate social responsibility: Reporting workplace issues

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 327-340

  Grosser, Kate ^a,b,c,d   Moon, Jeremy ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ICCSR ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c NGOs Academia   (United Kingdom)

^d Management Committee   (United Kingdom)

^e NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility (CSR); Gender equality; Gender mainstreaming (GM); Reporting; Workplace issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144521596     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-005-5334-3     Document Type: Article

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