The Business School’s Right to Operate: Responsibilization and Resistance

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 743-757

  Murillo, David ^a   Vallentin, Steen ^b  

^a ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Business schools; Corporate social responsibility; Critical management education; Management education; Management paradigms; Right to operate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944627083     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-015-2872-1     Document Type: Article

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