Research Note and Review of the Empirical Ethical Decision-Making Literature: Boundary Conditions and Extensions

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 195-219

  Lehnert, Kevin ^a   Park, Yung hwal ^b   Singh, Nitish ^c  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical analysis; Ethical decision making; Meta review; Methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930041390     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2147-2     Document Type: Article

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