Constructing social responsibility through corporate sustainability reporting

Critical Discourse Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 183-200

  Parsons, Richard ^a   McKenna, Bernard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication; Corporate social responsibility; Interdiscursivity; Reporting; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892801440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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