Accountability for corporate injustice

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 107-133

  Cropanzano, Russell ^a,c   Chrobot Mason, Donna ^b   Rupp, Deborah E ^a   Prehar, Cynthia A ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Fairness Theory; Organizational Justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 2142647797     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2004.02.006     Document Type: Article

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