Do Suppliers Applaud Corporate Social Performance?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 543-557

  Zhang, Min ^a   Ma, Lijun ^a   Su, Jun ^b   Zhang, Wen ^a  

^a Renmin University of China   (China)

^b BEIJING TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Corporate social performance; Corporate social responsibility; Stakeholders; Suppliers; Trade credit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901666442     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1735-x     Document Type: Article

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