Corporate Social Responsibility in Emerging Markets: The Importance of the Governance Environment

Management International Review

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 635-654

  Li, Shaomin ^a   Fetscherin, Marc ^b   Alon, Ilan ^b   Lattemann, Christoph ^c   Yeh, Kuang ^d  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b ROLLINS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Emerging markets; Governance environment; Relation based; Rule based

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957698026     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-010-0049-9     Document Type: Article

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