Business and development: Making sense of business as a development agent

Corporate Governance (Bingley)

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 414-426

  Blowfield, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bottom of the pyramid; Corporate responsibility; Economic development; International development; Poverty; Social enterprise; Social responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865351141     PISSN: 14720701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14720701211267775     Document Type: Article

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