Punishment, justice, and compliance in mandatory IT settings

Information Systems Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 400-414

  Xue, Yajiong ^a   Liang, Huigang ^a   Wu, Liansheng ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

Compliance; Distributive justice; Fairness; Informational justice; Mandatory context; Procedural justice; Punishment; Punishment expectancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960702988     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1090.0266     Document Type: Article

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