Soft Instruments, Few Networks: How 'New Governance' Materializes in Public Policies on Corporate Social Responsibility Across Europe

Environmental Policy and Governance

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 270-290

  Steurer, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Co regulation; Corporate social responsibility (CSR); CSR policies; Governing at arm's length; Network governance; New governance; Persuasion; Public policies on CSR; Regulation by information; Soft regulation

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LEGISLATION; SOCIAL POLICY;

EUROPE;

EID: 80052217412     PISSN: 1756932X     EISSN: 17569338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eet.575     Document Type: Article

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