Trust, accountability, and sales agents' dueling loyalties

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 289-310

  Kurland, Nancy B ^a  

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EID: 0007368289     PISSN: 1052150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/10.2307/3857461     Document Type: Article

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