Legitimating reputation/the reputation of legitimacy theory

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 371-374

  Bebbington, Jan ^a   Larrinaga González, Carlos ^b   Moneva Abadía, Jose M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corporate image; Corporate social responsibility; Risk management

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149167744     PISSN: 09513574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513570810863969     Document Type: Article

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