Can designing and selling low-quality products be ethical?

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 153-170

  Bakker II, Willem ^a,b   Loui, Michael C ^a,b,c,d  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Dept of Elec and Comp Engineering ^*  (United States)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate responsibility; Design engineering; Products; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242857276     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-997-0007-5     Document Type: Article

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