From implicit to explicit corporate social responsibility: Institutional change as a fight for myths

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 433-451

  Hiss, Stefanie ^a  

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DOI: 10.5840/beq200919324     Document Type: Article

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