Input and output legitimacy of multi-stakeholder initiatives

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 527-556

  Mena, Sébastien ^a   Palazzo, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Deliberative democracy; Legitimacy; Multi stakeholder initiative; Soft law

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874285554     PISSN: 1052150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/beq201222333     Document Type: Article

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