Management decision making and ethics: practices, skills and preferences

Management Decision

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 862-870

  Holian, Rosalie ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Ethics; Skills; Top management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986145215     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740210441422     Document Type: Article

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