Multinational corporation codes of conduct: Governance tools for corporate social responsibility?

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 294-311

  Bondy, Krista ^a   Matten, Dirk ^b   Moon, Jeremy ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d Royal Society for the Arts

Author keywords

Corporate governance code; Corporate social responsibility; Stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749097127     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2008.00694.x     Document Type: Article

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