Failure of Ethical Leadership: Implications for Stakeholder Theory and “Anti-Stakeholders”

Business and Society Review

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 165-190

  Hill, Ronald Paul ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85020161356     PISSN: 00453609     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/basr.12114     Document Type: Article

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