Spinning gold: The financial returns to stakeholder engagement

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1727-1748

  Henisz, Witold J ^a   Dorobantu, Sinziana ^b   Nartey, Lite J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

corporate social responsibility; instrumental stakeholder theory; international business; political risk; shareholder value

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; FINANCE; SHAREHOLDERS;

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES (CSR); INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; POLITICAL RISKS; SHAREHOLDER VALUES; STAKEHOLDER THEORY;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84911985441     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2180     Document Type: Review

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