Positive Business Ethics: Grounding and Elaborating a Theory of Good Works

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Stansbury, Jason M ^a   Sonenshein, Scott ^b  

^a CALVIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral ethics; Ethics; Moral identity; Moral imagination; Normative ethics; Positive; Positive deviance; Sensemaking intuition model; Supererogation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924962354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734610.013.0026     Document Type: Chapter

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