Evaluating Ethical Decision Making and Computer Use

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 74-83

  Loch, Karen D ^a   Conger, Sue ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; PERSONNEL; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

COMPUTER LITERACY; COMPUTER PRIVACY; DEINDIVIDUATION; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; ETHICS RESEARCH; SOCIAL NORMS; THEORY OF REASONED ACTION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0030194196     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/233977.233999     Document Type: Article

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