How Do Employees Perceive Corporate Responsibility? Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Corporate Stakeholder Responsibility Scale

Journal of Management

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 619-657

  El Akremi, Assâad ^a   Gond, Jean Pascal ^b   Swaen, Valérie ^c   De Roeck, Kenneth ^c   Igalens, Jacques ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOULOUSE CAPITOLE   (France)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c IESEG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (France)

^d TOULOUSE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

corporate social responsibility; employees perceptions; multidimensional construct; scale development and validation; stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040445437     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206315569311     Document Type: Article

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