Understanding corruption in organizations - development and empirical assessment of an action model

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 477-495

  Rabl, Tanja ^a   Kühlmann, Torsten M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Action model; Business ethics; Corrupt actor; Corruption in organizations; Corruption prevention and counter measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 53649095303     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-9898-6     Document Type: Article

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