Taking Terrain Literally: Grounding Local Adaptation to Corporate Social Responsibility in the Extractive Industries

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 423-434

  Dougherty, Michael L ^a   Olsen, Tricia D ^b  

^a Illinois State University Campus ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Business and society; Corporate social responsibility (CSR); Extractive industries; Gold mining; Guatemala; Materiality; Political CSR; Social terrain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893659192     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1643-0     Document Type: Article

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