A self-interest analysis of justice and tax compliance: How distributive justice moderates the effect of outcome favorability

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 704-727

  Verboon, Peter ^a   van Dijke, Marius ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distributive justice; Outcome favorability; Self interest; Tax compliance

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448968186     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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