The materiality of sustainability: Corporate social and environmental responsibility as instruments of strategic change?

Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Challenges for Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 219-251

  Clarke, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84917415845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203390122     Document Type: Chapter

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