Ethical decision-making in an IT context: The roles of personal moral philosophies and moral intensity

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Dorantes, Carlos Alberto ^a   Hewitt, Barbara ^a   Goles, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ETHICAL ISSUES; GENDER; RELIGIOSITY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 33749652977     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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