Exploring macintyre's virtue ethics in relation to information systems

16th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Adam, Alison ^a   Bull, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Best practice; Customer Relationship Management (CRM); Information systems ethics; Utilitarianism; Virtue ethics

Indexed keywords

BEST PRACTICE; CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT; CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ETHICAL CONCERNS; UTILITARIANISM; VIRTUE ETHICS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84870647908     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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