Driven to Be Good: A Stakeholder Theory Perspective on the Drivers of Corporate Social Performance

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 313-331

  Brower, Jacob ^a   Mahajan, Vijay ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate social performance (CSP); KLD database; Stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885636906     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1523-z     Document Type: Article

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