Making sense of CSR communication

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 137-145

  Ziek, Paul ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communicating virtuosity; CSR moves; Sensemaking; Stakeholder dialogue

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649383217     PISSN: 15353958     EISSN: 15353966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/csr.183     Document Type: Article

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