The accountability lens: A new way to view management issues

Business Horizons

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 405-413

  Hall, Angela T ^a   Bowen, Michael G ^b   Ferris, Gerald R ^a   Royle, M Todd ^c   Fitzgibbons, Dale E ^d  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Corporate scandal; Ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547773549     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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