Dynamics of Stakeholders' Implications in the Institutionalization of the CSR Field in France and in the United States

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 115-133

  Avetisyan, Emma ^a   Ferrary, Michel ^b  

^a SKEMA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility rating agencies; Institutional theory; Stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879462192     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1386-3     Document Type: Article

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