Business culture and dishonesty in the banking industry

Nature

Volumn 516, Issue 729, 2014, Pages 86-89

  Cohn, Alain ^a   Fehr, Ernst ^a   Marechal, Michel Andre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; SERVICE SECTOR;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYEE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRUST; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICS;

BEHAVIOR; COMMERCE; CULTURE; HUMANS;

EID: 84922269701     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13977     Document Type: Article

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