Stakeholder relations and financial performance

Sustainable Development

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 213-232

  Scholtens, Bert ^a   Zhou, Yangqin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Financial performace; Return; Risk; Stakeholder management; Theory of the firm

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CORPORATE STRATEGY; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; HUMAN RIGHTS; STAKEHOLDER;

EID: 47849106725     PISSN: 09680802     EISSN: 10991719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sd.364     Document Type: Conference Paper

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