Excuses, excuses: Moral slippage in the workplace

Business Horizons

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 65-72

  Gibson, Kevin ^a  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0034311256     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0007-6813(00)80024-5     Document Type: Article

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