Role models and moral exemplars: How DO employees acquire virtues by observing others?

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 675-696

  Moberg, Dennis J ^a  

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DOI: 10.5840/10.2307/3857898     Document Type: Article

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