Are ethical codes of conduct toothless tigers for dealing with employment discrimination?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 501-514

  Petersen, Lars Eric ^a   Krings, Franciska ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Code enforcement; Codes of conduct; Employment discrimination; Personnel selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 63049109566     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-9785-1     Document Type: Article

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