Factors Impacting Ethical Behavior in a Chinese State-Owned Steel Company

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 231-237

  Fu, Weihui ^a   Deshpande, Satish P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Ethical behavior; Ethical climate; Overclaiming; Steel company

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955212817     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0962-2     Document Type: Article

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