"she did what? There is no way i would do that!" the potential interpersonal harm caused by mispredicting one's behavior

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-11

  Diekmann, Kristina A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral forecasting errors; Misprediction; Unintended unethical behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249094267     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-007-9437-x     Document Type: Article

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