Can an Industry Be Socially Responsible If Its Products Harm Consumers? The Case of Online Gambling

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 481-497

  Yani de Soriano, Mirella ^a   Javed, Uzma ^b   Yousafzai, Shumaila ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CIIT ^*  (Pakistan)

Author keywords

CSR and gambling addiction; CSR in controversial industries; CSR in online gambling; Marketing activities in the online gambling industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867725350     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1495-z     Document Type: Article

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