Discouraging employee theft by managing social norms and promoting organizational justice

Managing Organizational Deviance

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 211-236

  Tomlinson, Edward C ^a   Greenberg, Jerald ^b  

^a Ohio State University ^*

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781452231105.n9     Document Type: Chapter

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