Tractable morality

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-15

  De Graaf, Gjalt ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contextual morality; Customer relations; Descriptive ethics; Discourse; Tractable morality

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844500839     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-005-5840-3     Document Type: Article

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