Abstract Knowledge and Reified Financial Innovation: Building Wisdom and Ethics Into Financial Innovation Networks

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 447-459

  Rooney, David ^a   Mandeville, Tom ^b   Kastelle, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abstract knowledge; Financial innovation; Reification; Social networks; Theory; Wisdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888834097     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1595-9     Document Type: Article

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