Corporate responsibility in small and medium-sized enterprises: SME social performance: A four-cell typology of key drivers and barriers on social issues and their implications for stakeholder theory

Corporate Governance

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 502-515

  Kusyk, Sophia Maria ^a   Lozano, Josep M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

^b ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Small to medium sized enterprises; Social responsibility; Stakeholder analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449117777     PISSN: 14720701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14720700710820588     Document Type: Article

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