Employee participation in CSR and corporate identity: Insights from a disaster-response program in the Asia-Pacific

Corporate Reputation Review

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 106-119

  Chong, Mark ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Core values; Corporate identity; Corporate social responsibility; Employees

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650812034     PISSN: 13633589     EISSN: 14791889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/crr.2009.8     Document Type: Article

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