Business ethics - Deontologically revisited

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-25

  Micewski, Edwin R ^a,b   Troy, Carmelita ^b  

^a National Defence Academy   (Austria)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting fraud; Business ethics; Consequentialism; Deontological ethics; Utilitarianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947286110     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9152-z     Document Type: Article

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