Socially responsible investment: Explaining its uneven development and human resource management consequences

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 135-145

  Waring, Peter ^a   Edwards, Tony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Singapore)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Human resource management; Socially responsible investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749127262     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2008.00676.x     Document Type: Article

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