NGOs moving business: An analysis of contrasting strategies

Business and Society

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 591-618

  van Huijstee, Mariëtte ^a   Glasbergen, Pieter ^b,c  

^a Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

corporate social responsibility (CSR); NGO strategies; nongovernmental organization (NGO); resource dependence; stakeholder influence strategies; sustainable banking

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649419062     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650310365516     Document Type: Article

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