Corporate social responsibility: Perspectives of hotel frontline employees

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 332-348

  Park, Sun Young ^a   Levy, Stuart E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Hotel frontline employees; Organizational identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898407729     PISSN: 09596119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJCHM-01-2013-0034     Document Type: Article

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