A perspective of collective consciousness of business organizations

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 889-898

  Pandey, Ashish ^a,b,c   Gupta, Rajen K ^b,d  

^a Pragati Leadership Institute   (India)

^b MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (India)

^c Pragati Leadership Institute   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Ethics; Market; Organizational consciousness; Social and spiritual consciousness

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849099387     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-007-9475-4     Document Type: Article

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