The processes of defining corporate responsibility: A study of Swedish garment retailers' responsibility

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 230-244

  Ählström, Jenny ^a   Egels Zandén, Niklas ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; ANT; Codes of conduct; Corporate responsibility; CSR; Garment industry

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; GARMENT INDUSTRY; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; LABOR RELATIONS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 43549093319     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.514     Document Type: Article

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