Managerial role in organizational CSR: Empirical lessons from Ghana

Corporate Governance (Bingley)

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 104-119

  Abugre, James Baba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Ghana)

Author keywords

CSR; Ghana; Leadership; Managerial; Managerial role; Organisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890890416     PISSN: 14720701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/CG-10-2011-0076     Document Type: Article

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