Cooperative, community-spirited and commercial: Social sustainability at Bendigo Bank

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 251-262

  Stubbs, Wendy ^a   Cocklin, Chris ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collaborative commerce; Community bank; Community development; Community engagement model; Social sustainability; Stakeholder engagement; Stakeholder network

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349102819     PISSN: 15353958     EISSN: 15353966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/csr.130     Document Type: Article

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