Noblesse oblige emerges (with time): Power enhances intergenerational beneficence

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 128, Issue , 2015, Pages 61-73

  Tost, Leigh Plunkett ^a   Wade Benzoni, Kimberly A ^b   Johnson, Hana Huang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Intergenerational; Power; Social responsibility; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930183240     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2015.03.003     Document Type: Article

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