Strategic corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability

Business and Society

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-27

  Orlitzky, Marc ^a   Siegel, Donald S ^b   Waldman, David A ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

corporate social performance; corporate social responsibility; environmental sustainability; resource based view of the firm; strategic leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952049620     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650310394323     Document Type: Review

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