The dynamics of business ethics: a function of time and culture – cases and models

Management Decision

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 350-361

  Svensson, Göran ^a   Wood, Greg ^b  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Ethics; Social economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986149595     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740310468195     Document Type: Article

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