Post-partnership strategies for defining corporate responsibility: The business social compliance initiative

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 175-189

  Egels Zandén, Niklas ^a   Wahlqvist, Evelina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Actor network theory (ANT); Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI); Codes of conduct; Corporate responsibility; Garment industry; Institutional theory; Partnership; Supplier relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846057487     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9104-7     Document Type: Article

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