It's not what you do, but who you are: Informal social control, social status, and normative seriousness in organizations

Sociological Forum

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 519-543

  Morrill, Calvin ^a   Snyderman, Ellen ^b   Dawson, Edwin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Informal social control; Managers; Organizations; Social deviance; Social status

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039917718     PISSN: 08848971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022170606380     Document Type: Article

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