East meets west: Tacit messages about business ethics in stories told by Chinese managers

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 457-469

  Von Weltzien Hoivik, Heidi ^a,b  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^b School of Management   (Norway)

Author keywords

'face'; 'Guanxi'; 'Renqing'; Chinese culture; Chinese managers; Codes of ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 36049006128     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-007-9508-z     Document Type: Article

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