Private-public partnerships: Corporate responsibility strategy in food retail

International Journal of Business Excellence

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 5-20

  Rotter, Julia Patrizia ^a   Özbek, Nurgül ^b   Mark Herbert, Cecilia ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Case study; Corporate responsibility; CR; Food; Management; PPP; Private public partnership; Retail market; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857316337     PISSN: 17560047     EISSN: 17560055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBEX.2012.044570     Document Type: Article

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