Business-conflict linkages: Revisiting MNCs, CSR, and conflict

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 443-464

  Jamali, Dima ^a   Mirshak, Ramez ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Business conflict linkages; Corporate social responsibility; Developing countries; Lebanon; Multinational corporations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951978256     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0232-8     Document Type: Article

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