Communicating CSR: Practices among Switzerland's top 300 companies

Corporate Communications

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 182-196

  Birth, Gregory ^a   Illia, Laura ^b   Lurati, Francesco ^c   Zamparini, Alessandra ^c  

^a BSI SA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Channel relationships; Communication management; Corporate social responsibility; Stakeholder analysis; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049083008     PISSN: 13563289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13563280810869604     Document Type: Article

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