Corporate irresponsibility and corporate social responsibility: Competing realities

Social Responsibility Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 300-310

  Jones, Brian ^a   Bowd, Ryan ^a   Tench, Ralph ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Corporate social responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992969222     PISSN: 17471117     EISSN: 1758857X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17471110910977249     Document Type: Article

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