Reasons to be cheerful? What we know about CSR's impact

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 683-695

  Blowfield, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; CORPORATE STRATEGY; DEVELOPING WORLD; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

EID: 34249680211     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436590701336523     Document Type: Article

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