Pluralism in political corporate social responsibility

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 649-678

  Mäkinen, Jukka ^a   Kourula, Arno ^b,c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Division of moral labor; Pluralism; Political theory; Rawls

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875205111     PISSN: 1052150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/beq201222443     Document Type: Article

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