Responses to organizational harm: Mechanism of blaming managers as proxies for a culpable organization

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 184-194

  Zemba, Yuriko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Organizational harm; Punishment; Responsibility attribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750561704     PISSN: 13672223     EISSN: 1467839X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-839X.2006.00196.x     Document Type: Article

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