A Comparative Investigation of Ethical Decision Making: Information Systems Professionals versus Students

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 20-32

  Cappel, James J ^a   Windsor, John C ^b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Codes of good practice; Ethics; Information systems edu cation; Management of computing and information systems; The computing profession; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544308213     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/298752.298756     Document Type: Article

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