Differential economic impacts of corporate responsibility issues

Business and Society

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 206-224

  Lankoski, Leena ^a  

^a INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Content specific perspective; Corporate responsibility; Economic performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649091005     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650307306635     Document Type: Article

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