Bounded autonomy and behavioral ethics: Deonance and reactance as competing motives

Human Relations

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 905-924

  Folger, Robert ^a   Ganegoda, Deshani B ^b   Rice, Darryl B ^a   Taylor, Regina ^a   Wo, David XH ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

behavioral ethics; bounded autonomy; deonance theory; duties; organizational justice; reactance theory; rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879739049     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726713482013     Document Type: Article

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