Using Global Reporting Initiative indicators for CSR programs

Journal of Global Responsibility

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 62-75

  Wilburn, Kathleen ^a   Wilburn, Ralph ^a  

^a ST EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Ethics; Performance indicators; Shared value; Social responsibility; Stakeholder management; Stakeholder theory of ethics; Stakeholders; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949497441     PISSN: 20412568     EISSN: 20412576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/20412561311324078     Document Type: Article

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