Corporate social responsibility in cyberspace: Selling out to autocratic regimes: Implications from the case of google corporation in China

Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice

Volumn 12, Issue , 2013, Pages 183-204

  Morris, Susan C ^a  

^a VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Corporate social responsibility; Cyberspace; Google; Human rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881388728     PISSN: 20515030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S2051-5030(2013)0000012013     Document Type: Article

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