Explicating factors for companies' inclination towards corruption in Operations and supply chain management: An exploratory study in Germany

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 136-147

  Arnold, Ulli ^a   Neubauer, Joerg ^a   Schoenherr, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inclination towards corruption; Operations and supply chain management; Partial least squares; Principal agent theory

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PRACTICES; CORPORATE CULTURE; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL COMPLEXITY; GERMANY; INCLINATION TOWARDS CORRUPTION; ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS; ORGANIZATIONAL COMPLEXITY; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); PRINCIPAL-AGENT THEORY; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

CRIME;

EID: 84859923262     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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