Socially Responsible Practices: An Exploratory Study on Scale Development using Stakeholder Theory

Decision Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 683-716

  Shafiq, Asad ^a   Klassen, Robert D ^a   Johnson, P Fraser ^a   Awaysheh, Amrou ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Socially Responsible Practices; Stakeholder Theory; Survey Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906489812     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/deci.12085     Document Type: Article

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