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12 - The mobility of industries and the limits of corporate social responsibility: labor codes of conduct in Indonesian factories

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

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Tim Bartley  and
Doug Kincaid
Edited by
Kiyoteru Tsutsui  and
Alwyn Lim
Kiyoteru Tsutsui
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Alwyn Lim
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
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Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World , pp. 393 - 429
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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