Global business as an agent of world benefit: New international business perspectives leading positive change

Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 374-401

  Adler, Nancy J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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