Nature of e-business ethical dilemmas

Information Management and Computer Security

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-177

  Petrovic Lazarevic, Sonja ^a   Sohal, Amrik S ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Ethics; Information management; Information officers; Organizational culture

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MANAGERS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

ETHNICAL DILEMMAS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; SHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 3943105513     PISSN: 09685227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09685220410530807     Document Type: Article

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