Exercising social responsibility in downsizing: Enrolling and mobilizing actors at a swedish high-tech company

Organization Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 897-919

  Bergström, Ola ^a   Diedrich, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

actor network theory; corporate social responsibility; dismissals; stakeholders; translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960222270     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840611407019     Document Type: Article

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