Dealing with uncertainties when governing CSR policies

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 391-408

  Lepoutre, Jan ^a   Dentchev, Nikolay A ^a,b   Heene, Aimé ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Fortis   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; New Governance; Policy instruments; Public policy; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250311962     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9214-2     Document Type: Article

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