Board Composition and Corporate Social Responsibility: An Empirical Investigation in the Post Sarbanes-Oxley Era

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 381-392

  Zhang, Jason Q ^a   Zhu, Hong ^a   Ding, Hung bin ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Board composition; Board of directors; Corporate social responsibility (CSR); Moral legitimacy; Post SOX; Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878601497     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1352-0     Document Type: Article

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