The Business Firm as a Political Actor: A New Theory of the Firm for a Globalized World

Business and Society

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 143-156

  Scherer, Andreas Georg ^a   Palazzo, Guido ^b   Matten, Dirk ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

corporate social responsibility; political theory; theory of the firm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893821779     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650313511778     Document Type: Article

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