Corporate social responsibility through an economic lens

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 219-239

  Reinhardt, Forest L ^a   Stavins, Robert N ^b   Vietor, Richard H K ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PROFITABILITY; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 48549100367     PISSN: 17506816     EISSN: 17506824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reep/ren008     Document Type: Article

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