Corporate response to CSO criticism: Decoupling the corporate responsibility discourse from business practice

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 70-80

  Ählström, Jenny ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Business amorality; Civil society organizations (CSOs); Code of conducts; Corporate responsibility; Discourse theory; Garment industry; New institutional theory; Outsourced production; Profit maximisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950164127     PISSN: 15353958     EISSN: 15353966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/csr.232     Document Type: Article

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