Corporate social responsibility in the blogosphere

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 599-614

  Fieseler, Christian ^a   Fleck, Matthes ^a   Meckel, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corporate communications; Corporate social responsibility; Corporate weblogs; Social networks; Stakeholder communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 75949118160     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0135-8     Document Type: Article

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