CSR in industrial clusters: An overview of the literature

Corporate Governance (Bingley)

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 568-578

  Lund Thomsen, Peter ^a   Pillay, Renginee G ^b  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective action; Corporate social responsibility; Developing countries; Global value chains; Industrial clusters; Poverty reduction; Small to medium sized enterprises; Social development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865398355     PISSN: 14720701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14720701211267874     Document Type: Review

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