Complete and partial organizing for corporate social responsibility

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 651-663

  Rasche, Andreas ^a   de Bakker, Frank G A ^b   Moon, Jeremy ^c  

^a CBS Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility ^*  (Denmark)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complete organization; Corporate social responsibility; Cross sector partnerships; CSR standards; Institutional theory; Organization studies; Partial organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880941286     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1824-x     Document Type: Article

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