Lights and shadows on sustainability rating scoring

Review of Managerial Science

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 559-574

  Escrig Olmedo, Elena ^a   Muñoz Torres, María Jesús ^a   Fernández Izquierdo, María Ángeles ^a   Rivera Lirio, Juana María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Fuzzy logic; Management; Offset effect; Rating; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907251612     PISSN: 18636683     EISSN: 18636691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11846-013-0118-0     Document Type: Article

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