Beyond decoupling: Unions and the leveraging of corporate social responsibility in Indonesia

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 231-255

  Bartley, Tim ^a   Egels Zandén, Niklas ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Developing countries; Globalization; Institutional theory; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978955088     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwv023     Document Type: Article

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