Organizational antecedents of a mining firm's efforts to reinvent its CSR: The case of golden star resources in Ghana

Business and Society Review

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 467-507

  Puplampu, Bill Buenar ^a   Dashwood, Hevina S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Ghana)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 82755189085     PISSN: 00453609     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8594.2011.00393.x     Document Type: Article

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