Beyond Stakeholder Utility Function: Stakeholder Capability in the Value Creation Process

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 489-507

  Garriga, Elisabet ^a  

^a EADA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amartya Sen; Capabilities; Corporate Social Responsibility; Empirical model; Stakeholder theory; Value creation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898539635     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-2001-y     Document Type: Article

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