Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Value Chains: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-22

  Lund Thomsen, Peter ^a   Lindgreen, Adam ^b  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compliance paradigm; Cooperative paradigm; Corporate social responsibility; Global value chains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879738689     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1796-x     Document Type: Article

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