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11 - Is greenness in the eye of the beholder? Corporate social responsibility frameworks and the environmental performance of US firms

from Part IV - The impact of global corporate social responsibility pressures on corporate social responsibility outcomes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Kiyoteru Tsutsui
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Alwyn Lim
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
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