Business Ethics: Pragmatism and Postmodernism

A Companion to Business Ethics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 128-138

  Freeman, R Edward ^a   Phillips, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Postmodernism; Pragmatism; Social issues; Social sciences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871510145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470998397.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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