Can corporate social responsibility resolve the sanitation question in developing Asian countries?

Ecological Economics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 174-183

  Abeysuriya, Kumudini ^a   Mitchell, Cynthia ^a   White, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Buddist economics; Corporate social responsibility; Developing countries; Distributed infrastracture; Sanitation

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; DEVELOPING WORLD; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; SANITATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS;

ASIA; EURASIA;

ANURA;

EID: 33947420034     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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