Stakeholder Theory and Social Identity: Rethinking Stakeholder Identification

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 102, Issue SUPPL., 2011, Pages 77-87

  Crane, Andrew ^a   Ruebottom, Trish ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corporate responsibility; Identity salience; Social identity theory; Stakeholder identification and classification; Stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858702959     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-1191-4     Document Type: Article

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