Supervising Unethical Sales Force Behavior: How Strong is the Tendency to Treat Top Sales Performers Leniently?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 337-351

  Bellizzi, Joseph A ^a   Hasty, Ronald W ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlling unethical work behavior; Supervising unethical behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346499494     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023045617076     Document Type: Article

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