Institutional complementarity between corporate governance and Corporate Social Responsibility: A comparative institutional analysis of three capitalisms

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-108

  Kang, Nahee ^a   Moon, Jeremy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Corporate governance; Corporate social responsibility; Institutional change; Varieties of institutional complementarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755199984     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwr025     Document Type: Article

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