The U.S. military-industrial complex is circumstantially unethical

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-165

  Byrne, Edmund F ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circumstantially unethical business; Domination; Imperialist amorality; Military industrial complex; Superpower

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955174603     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0361-0     Document Type: Article

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