Contesting the value of "creating shared value"

California Management Review

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 130-153

  Crane, Andrew ^a,b   Palazzo, Guido ^a   Spence, Laura J ^a,c   Matten, Dirk ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business and society; Corporate social responsibility; Ethics; Partnerships; Philanthropy; Stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894544782     PISSN: 00081256     EISSN: 21628564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cmr.2014.56.2.130     Document Type: Article

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