Virtuous Decision Making for Business Ethics

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 91, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 3-16

  Provis, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

intuition; management decision making; phron sis; practical wisdom; virtue ethics; y

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957945759     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-010-0564-4     Document Type: Article

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