The impact of relationships and confucian ethics on Chinese employees' whistle-blowing willingness in software projects

PACIS 2011 - 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Quality Research in Pacific

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wang, Jijie ^a   Oh, Lih Bin ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Confucian ethics; Interpersonal closeness; IT project management; Organizational commitment; Whistle blowing

Indexed keywords

CONFUCIAN ETHICS; FAILURE RATE; INTERPERSONAL CLOSENESS; ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT; SOFTWARE PROJECT; WHISTLE-BLOWING;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84862938046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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