Institutional network structure of corporate stakeholders regarding global corporate social responsibility issues

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1063-1080

  Nam, Yoonjae ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Hyperlink; Institutional communication; Stakeholder; Two mode network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939887091     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-014-0035-6     Document Type: Article

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