Organizational commitment: A proposal for a wider ethical conceptualization of 'normative commitment'

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 401-414

  González, Tomás F ^a   Guillén, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Affective commitment; Allen and Meyer's model; Aristotle; Ethics; Normative commitment; Organizational commitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749151895     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9333-9     Document Type: Article

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