Seeing green: Mere exposure to money triggers a business decision frame and unethical outcomes

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 53-61

  Kouchaki, Maryam ^a   Smith Crowe, Kristin ^b   Brief, Arthur P ^b   Sousa, Carlos ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Business decision frame; Environmental cue; Ethics; Immorality; Money; Unethical behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875370047     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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