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8 - Why firms participate in the global corporate social responsibility initiatives, 2000–2010

from Part III - Corporations’ reaction to global corporate social responsibility pressures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

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Shawn M. Pope
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Kiyoteru Tsutsui  and
Alwyn Lim
Kiyoteru Tsutsui
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Alwyn Lim
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University of Southern California
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Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World , pp. 251 - 285
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