Dirty work, clean hands: The moral psychology of indirect agency

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 134-141

  Paharia, Neeru ^a   Kassam, Karim S ^b   Greene, Joshua D ^b   Bazerman, Max H ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Ethics; Indirect agency; Moral psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 68649088309     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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