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9 - Why do companies join the United Nations Global Compact? The case of Japanese signatories

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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

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