The benefits and costs of corporate social responsibility

Business Horizons

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 445-453

  Sprinkle, Geoffrey B ^a   Maines, Laureen A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77955510441     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2010.05.006     Document Type: Note

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