Who are the stakeholders now? An empirical examination of the Mitchell, Agle, and Wood theory of stakeholder salience

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 177-192

  Magness, Vanessa ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Legitimacy perspective; Stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 55249127695     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-007-9610-2     Document Type: Article

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