Small & medium-sized enterprises and Corporate Social Responsibility: A systematic review of the literature

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3205-3218

  Vázquez Carrasco, Rosario ^a   López Pérez, M Eugenia ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b Areca Consulting Group   (Spain)

Author keywords

CSR; SMEs; Systematic literature review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883269293     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-012-9713-4     Document Type: Article

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