The applicability of a contingent factors model to accounting ethics research

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-18

  Cohen, Jeffrey R ^a,c   Bennie, Nonna Martinov ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting ethics; Audit judgment; Contingent factors ethics model; Moral intensity factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750375049     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9036-2     Document Type: Article

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