Dialectical interactions: Decoupling and integrating ethics in ethics initiatives

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-238

  Jovanovic, Spoma ^a   Wood, Roy V ^a  

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EID: 34248355971     PISSN: 1052150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/beq200717227     Document Type: Article

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