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13 - Good firms, good targets: the relationship among corporate social responsibility, reputation, and activist targeting

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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