Corporate social responsibility for developing country multinational corporations: Lost war in pertaining global competitiveness?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 87, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 3-24

  Gugler, Philippe ^a,b,c   Shi, Jacylyn Y J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Economic and Social Policy ^*

Author keywords

Chinese MNEs; Competitiveness; CSR

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349243355     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-9801-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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