Mission impossible?: Adopting a CSR-based business model for extractive industries in developing countries

Resources Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 179-184

  Slack, Keith ^a  

^a Oxfam America ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Guatemala; Human; Mining; Poverty; Rights

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; POVERTY; RIGHTS;

INDUSTRY; MINING;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

CORPORATE STRATEGY; DEVELOPING WORLD; HUMAN RIGHTS; MINING INDUSTRY; MODELING;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 84860612822     PISSN: 03014207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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