Implementing corporate social responsibility in the UK construction industry

Property Management

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-17

  Barthorpe, Stephen ^a  

^a MITIE Group PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction industry; Corporate social responsibility; Small to medium sized enterprises; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 76449107995     PISSN: 02637472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02637471011017145     Document Type: Article

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