Individual, Social and Organizational Sources of Sharing and Variation in the Ethical Reasoning of Managers

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 101-124

  Granitz, Nell A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethical reasoning; Individual determinants; Moral intent; Organizational determinants; Regresision; Sharing; Social determinants; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346494367     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021973305783     Document Type: Article

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