Formal and Informal Corruption Environments and Multinational Enterprise Social Irresponsibility

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 89-116

  Keig, Dawn L ^a   Brouthers, Lance Eliot ^b   Marshall, Victor B ^b  

^a WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate social irresponsibility (CSiR); Corporate social responsibility (CSR); Corruption; Institutional theory; International; Multinational enterprise (MNE); Negative binomial regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916199632     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12102     Document Type: Article

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