The CEO Effect: A Longitudinal, Multilevel Analysis of the Relationship Between Executive Orientation and Corporate Social Strategy

Business and Society

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 631-648

  Mazutis, Daina D ^a  

^a IMD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CEO open executive orientation; corporate social responsibility (CSR); corporate social strategy (CSS); growth curve modeling; hierarchical linear modeling (HLM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887540477     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650313490510     Document Type: Article

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