Organizational Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility

The Handbook of Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 87-109

  May, Steve ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

CSR and organizational communication from normative perspective; CSR related values shaping corporate decisions in three ways; Field of organizational communication; Local emergent and elite a priori dimension; Management communication quarterly; Organizational communication and corporate social responsibility (CSR); Organizational communication theory and research; Questions of ethics and CSR; Tension between idealism and realism, heart of CSR; Third tension, and ethics performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878250255     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118083246.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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