Corporate social responsibility reports: A thematic analysis related to supply chain management

Journal of Supply Chain Management

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-44

  Tate, Wendy L ^a   Ellram, Lisa M ^b   Kirchoff, Jon F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Centering resonance analysis; Content analysis; Corporate social responsibility reports; Crawdad software; Global; Operations; Supply chain; Sustainability; Sustainable supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 72649095344     PISSN: 15232409     EISSN: 1745493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-493X.2009.03184.x     Document Type: Article

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