The Extensiveness of Corporate Social and Environmental Commitment across Firms over Time

Organization Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 949-966

  Bansal, Pratima ^a   Gao, Jijun ^b   Qureshi, Israr ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

corporate social responsibility; institutional theory; latent growth modeling; practice implementation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902997018     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613515564     Document Type: Article

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