Corporate responsiveness to community stakeholders: Effects of contextual and organizational characteristics

Business and Society

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 326-359

  Kobeissi, Nada ^a   Damanpour, Fariborz ^b  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Banks; Community Reinvestment Act; Community stakeholders; Environmental and organizational determinants

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349306101     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650307305369     Document Type: Article

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