Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility: Competing or Complementary Approaches to Poverty Reduction and Socioeconomic Rights?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 329-347

  Osuji, Onyeka K ^a   Obibuaku, Ugochukwu L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capability approach; Corporate social responsibility; Development; Globalization; Poverty; Socioeconomic rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919941170     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2523-y     Document Type: Article

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