Corporate Social Responsibility and Job Choice Intentions: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Business and Society

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 854-888

  Dawkins, Cedric E ^a   Jamali, Dima ^b   Karam, Charlotte ^b   Lin, Lianlian ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; corporate social responsibility (CSR); cross cultural research on CSR; job choice intentions; Lebanon; theory of planned behavior (TPB); United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977134227     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 15524205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650314564783     Document Type: Article

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