Benchmarking of corporate social responsibility: Methodological problems and robustness

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 137-152

  Graafland, Johan J ^a   Eijffinger, S C W ^a   Smidjohan, H ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

benchmarking; corporate social responsibility; sensitivity analysis; stakeholder perspective; transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 4444294761     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BUSI.0000039404.67854.e1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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