Comparing Virtue, Consequentialist, and Deontological Ethics-Based Corporate Social Responsibility: Mitigating Microfinance Risk in Institutional Voids

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 487-512

  Chakrabarty, Subrata ^a   Erin Bass, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom of the pyramid; Ethics based CSR theory; Institutional theory; Social entrepreneurship; Stakeholder theory; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887660679     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1963-0     Document Type: Article

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