For All Good Reasons: Role of Values in Organizational Sustainability

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 393-408

  Florea, Liviu ^a   Cheung, Yu Ha ^b   Herndon, Neil C ^c  

^a WASHBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Altruism; Culture free personal values; Empathy; High performance human resource management practices; Organizational sustainability; Positive norm of reciprocity; Private self effacement; Resource based view

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878560194     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1355-x     Document Type: Article

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