Contextualizing business ethics: Anomie and social life

Human Relations

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1351-1375

  Johnson, Phil ^a   Smith, Ken ^a,b  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anomie; Business ethics; Modernism; Postmodernism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040626518     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001872679905201101     Document Type: Article

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