Formal Infrastructure and Ethical Decision Making: An Empirical Investigation and Implications for Supply Management

Decision Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 163-204

  Rottig, Daniel ^a   Koufteros, Xenophon ^b   Umphress, Elizabeth ^b  

^a FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business Ethics; Codes of Conduct; Codes of Ethics; Empirical; Ethical Decision Making; Formal Ethical Infrastructure; Moral Awareness; Moral Intention; Moral Judgment; Procurement; Recurrent Communication; Sanctions; Supply Management; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951875917     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2010.00305.x     Document Type: Article

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