A social contract account for CSR as an extended model of corporate governance (I): Rational bargaining and justification

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 259-281

  Sacconi, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bargaining games; Distributive justice; Fiduciary duties; Impartiality; Incompleteness of contracts; Social contract; Stakeholder theory; Theory of the firm

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750464056     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9014-8     Document Type: Review

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