Is it ethical to use ethics as strategy?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-31

  Husted, Bryan W ^a   Allen, David B ^b  

^a EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Mexico)

^b IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corporate citizenship; Ethics; Social responsibility; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034259542     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-4311-0_4     Document Type: Article

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