Business Under Threat, Technology Under Attack, Ethics Under Fire: The Experience of Google in China

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 469-479

  Tan, Justin ^a   Tan, Anna E ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Business ethic; China; Copyright; Corporate social responsibility; Google; Internet search engine; Privacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867704601     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1494-0     Document Type: Article

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