Virtue and meaningful work

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 433-450

  Beadle, Ron ^a   Knight, Kelvin ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business ethics; MacIntyre; Meaningful work; Self determination theory; Virtue

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875171463     PISSN: 1052150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/beq201222219     Document Type: Article

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