Board Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 641-660

  Harjoto, Maretno ^a   Laksmana, Indrarini ^b   Lee, Robert ^a  

^a PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Board of Directors; Corporate social responsibility; Diversity; Stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027944394     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2343-0     Document Type: Article

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