Academic dishonesty in the Middle East: Individual and contextual factors

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 451-467

  McCabe, Donald L ^a   Feghali, Tony ^b   Abdallah, Hanin ^b  

^a RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Academic integrity; Contextual factors; Individual factors; Middle East

Indexed keywords

EID: 44749094926     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-008-9092-9     Document Type: Article

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