Corporate social responsibility: A trend and a movement, but of what and for what?

Corporate Governance

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 595-608

  Sahlin Andersson, Kerstin ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Management strategy; Organizational change; Regulation; Social responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750233116     PISSN: 14720701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14720700610706081     Document Type: Article

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