The Organizational Implementation of Corporate Citizenship: An Assessment Tool and its Application at UN Global Compact Participants

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-17

  Baumann Pauly, Dorothée ^a,b   Scherer, Andreas Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corporate citizenship; CSR; Globalization; Organizational implementation; UN Global Compact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884978321     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1502-4     Document Type: Article

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