Enterprise logic: Explaining corporate attention to stakeholders from the 'inside-out'

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1174-1193

  Crilly, Donal ^a   Sloan, Pamela ^b  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

dominant logic; managerial cognition; organizational attention; social performance; stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

MANAGERS;

DOMINANT LOGIC; MANAGERIAL COGNITIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL ATTENTIONS; SOCIAL PERFORMANCE; STAKEHOLDER THEORY;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 84865068955     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.1964     Document Type: Article

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