Requisitely holistic ethics planning as pre-condition for enterprise ethical behaviour

Kybernetes

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-36

  Belak, Jernej ^a   Duh, Mojca ^a   Mulej, Matjaž ^a   Štrukelj, Tjaša ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Cybernetics; Organizational culture; Organizational planning; Systems theory

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CYBERNETICS; SYSTEM THEORY;

BUSINESS ETHICS; CORE VALUES; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ENTERPRISE CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES; ORGANIZATIONAL PLANNING; RESEARCH PAPERS;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 77949547583     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684921011021255     Document Type: Article

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