The ethical significance of expectations and the case of Microsoft Office Accounting

Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Ploug, Thomas ^a  

^a Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts   (Denmark)

Author keywords

consumer expectations; ethics; Microsoft; personal autonomy; software

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956360715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19416008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1941-6008.1128     Document Type: Article

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