Does the Business Case Matter? The Effect of a Perceived Business Case on Small Firms’ Social Engagement

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  2017

• Venue

  Journal of Business Ethics

• Publication date

  2017-09-01

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  Business, Economics

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  DOI 10.1007/S10551-015-2835-6
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