Ethics and the Networked Business

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 90, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2009, Pages 661-681

  Santana, Adele ^a   Vaccaro, Antonino ^b,c   Wood, Donna J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTUGAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

business ethics; management processes; network ethics; stakeholder theory; sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957287705     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-010-0599-6     Document Type: Article

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