Management, Communication, and Corporate Social Responsibility

The Handbook of Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 45-66

  Bartlett, Jennifer L ^a   Devin, Bree ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Changes in management thinking with CSR, a global trend; Corporate social performance (CSP); CSR as a strategic response to organizational environment; CSR knowledge "continuing state of emergence"; CSR, a normative exercise, what corporations should be responsible for; Emergence of stakeholder theory; Management, communication, and corporate social responsibility (CSR); Normative approaches to CSR; Organization stakeholder specific factors and CSR communication; Stakeholder incorporation into CSR process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886025330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118083246.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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