Ethical discrepancy: Changing our attitudes to resolve moral dissonance

Behavioral Business Ethics: Shaping an Emerging Field

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 221-239

  Shu, Lisa L ^a   Gino, Francesca ^a   Bazerman, Max H ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

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