Predicting organizational responsiveness to poverty: Exploratory model and application to Brazil and the United States

European Management Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 522-535

  Lobel, Sharon ^a  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; Corporate social responsibility; Field cohesion; International management; Issue salience; Poverty alleviation; United States; Work family

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880617064     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2013.04.007     Document Type: Article

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