Ethical beliefs and tolerance of ambiguity

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 141-148

  Yurtsever, Gülçimen ^a,b  

^a BLACK SEA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Business; Ethical beliefs; Idealism; Relativism; Tolerance of ambiguity

Indexed keywords

EID: 22844455067     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2000.28.2.141     Document Type: Article

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