Privatizing or Socializing Corporate Responsibility: Business Participation in Voluntary Programs

Business and Society

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 583-619

  Fransen, Luc ^a   Burgoon, Brian ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

corporate responsibility; globalization; labor standards; multi stakeholder governance; NGOs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903129760     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650313475784     Document Type: Article

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