Good environmental citizens?: The green rhetoric of corporate social responsibility

Rhetorical and Critical Approaches to Public Relations II: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 360-374

  Ihlen, Øyvind ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Hedmark College   (Norway)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203874929     Document Type: Chapter

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