'Cursed' Communities? Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Company Towns and the Mining Industry in Namibia

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 39-63

  Littlewood, David ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Company towns; Corporate Social Responsibility; Mining; Namibia; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894382733     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1649-7     Document Type: Article

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