Ethical attitudes of accounting practitioners: Are rank and ethical attitudes related?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-194

  Conroy, Stephen J ^a   Emerson, Tisha L N ^b   Pons, Frank ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accounting practitioners; Auditors; Ethical attitudes; Ethics; Inverse rank ethical beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 74149090689     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0076-2     Document Type: Article

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