Ethics Code Familiarity and Usefulness: Views on Idealist and Relativist Managers under Varying Conditions of Turbulence

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 237-252

  Chonko, Lawrence B ^a   Wotruba, Thomas R ^b   Loe, Terry W ^c  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Code familiarity; Code usefulness; Ethics codes; Idealism; Relativism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347931630     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022261006692     Document Type: Article

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