Is philanthropy being used by corporate wrongdoers to buy good will?

Journal of Management and Governance

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-16

  Koehn, Daryl ^a   Ueng, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate; Fraud; Governance philanthropy; Social responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 63649155942     PISSN: 13853457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10997-009-9087-8     Document Type: Article

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