Disclosure as a tool in stakeholder relations management: a longitudinal study on the Port of Rotterdam

International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 228-250

  Notteboom, Theo ^a   Parola, Francesco ^b   Satta, Giovanni ^c   Penco, Lara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

disclosure; longitudinal analysis; Port Authority; salience; stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929954831     PISSN: 13675567     EISSN: 1469848X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13675567.2015.1027149     Document Type: Article

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