Wise Up: Creating Organizational Wisdom Through an Ethic of Kaitiakitanga

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 223-235

  Spiller, Chellie ^a   Pio, Edwina ^b   Erakovic, Lijijana ^a   Henare, Manuka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND BUSINESS SCHOOL   (New Zealand)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ethics; Indigenous; Maori; Stewardship; Values; Well being; Wisdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255131362     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0905-y     Document Type: Article

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