Does media attention drive corporate social responsibility?

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1622-1627

  Zyglidopoulos, Stelios C ^a   Georgiadis, Andreas P ^b   Carroll, Craig E ^c   Siegel, Donald S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertising; Corporate social responsibility; Information asymmetry; KLD data; Media attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867484499     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.10.021     Document Type: Article

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