Proactive versus reactive business ethics performance: A conceptual framework of profile analysis and case illustrations

Corporate Governance: The international journal of business in society

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 18-33

  Svensson, Goran ^a   Wood, Greg ^b  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Business performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986145196     PISSN: 14720701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14720700410534949     Document Type: Article

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