Social Media for Socially Responsible Firms: Analysis of Fortune 500's Twitter Profiles and their CSR/CSIR Ratings

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 791-806

  Lee, Kiljae ^a   Oh, Won Yong ^b   Kim, Namhyeok ^c  

^a EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CSIR; CSR; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889591837     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1961-2     Document Type: Article

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