Motives for Corporate Social Responsibility

Economist (Netherlands)

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 377-396

  Graafland, Johan ^a   Mazereeuw Van der Duijn Schouten, Corrie ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Altruism; Corporate social responsibility; Extrinsic motive; Intrinsic motive

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHICS;

EID: 84867154576     PISSN: 0013063X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10645-012-9198-5     Document Type: Article

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