Building corporate social responsibility into strategy

European Business Review

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 109-127

  Galbreath, Jeremy ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Corporate strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907591353     PISSN: 0955534X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09555340910940123     Document Type: Article

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