Responsible Innovation and the Innovation of Responsibility: Governing Sustainable Development in a Globalized World

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 227-243

  Voegtlin, Christian ^a   Scherer, Andreas Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Global governance; Globalization; Political CSR; Responsible innovation; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938651976     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-015-2769-z     Document Type: Article

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