'I'm not in it for the money': Constructing and mediating ethical reconnections in UK social banking

Geoforum

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1076-1088

  Buttle, Martin ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banking; Charity; Relational ethics

Indexed keywords

BANKING; ETHICS; INVESTMENT; STAKEHOLDER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34848829830     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.12.011     Document Type: Article

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