Assessing stakeholder satisfaction: Toward a supplemental measure of corporate social performance as reputation

Corporate Reputation Review

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 119-137

  Orlitzky, Marc ^a   Swanson, Diane L ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Executive decision making; Generalizability theory; Social legitimacy; Stakeholder satisfaction; Stakeholder values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860758452     PISSN: 13633589     EISSN: 14791889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/crr.2012.3     Document Type: Review

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