Social Alliance and Employee Voluntary Activities: A Resource-Based Perspective

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 251-268

  Liu, Gordon ^a   Ko, Wai Wai ^b  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Employee voluntary activities; Resource based view; Social alliances

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255137526     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0907-9     Document Type: Article

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