Why Sparing the Rod Does Not Spoil the Child: A Critique of the "Strict Father" Model in Transnational Governance

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 225-240

  Haack, Patrick ^a   Scherer, Andreas Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evaluators; Metaphor; Social judgment formation; Transnational governance; United Nations Global Compact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902799383     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2218-4     Document Type: Article

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