Governing Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling: The Effect of the Governance Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling
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Corporate social responsibility; CSR decoupling; Corporate governance; CSR Committee; Committee size; Gender diversity; Independence; Agency theory;All these keywords.
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