Communicating Corporate Ethics on the World Wide Web: A Discourse Analysis of Selected Company Web Sites

Business & Society

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 277-287

  Pollach, Irene ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

business ethics; corporate image; corporate Web sites; ethics communication; social responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992920766     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 15524205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650303042002006     Document Type: Article

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