The Governance of Corporate Sustainability: Empirical Insights into the Development, Leadership and Implementation of Responsible Business Strategy

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 145-165

  Klettner, Alice ^a   Clarke, Thomas ^a   Boersma, Martijn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Corporate responsibility; Corporate social responsibility implementation; Corporate sustainability; Stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902791125     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1750-y     Document Type: Article

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