Corporate or Governmental Duties? Corporate Citizenship From a Governmental Perspective

Business and Society

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 617-645

  Aßländer, Michael S ^a   Curbach, Janina ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

bourgeois; citoyen; corporate citizenship (CC); corporate governmental task sharing; responsibility; subsidiarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015322679     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 15524205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650315585974     Document Type: Article

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