Are the goals of organizational justice self-interested?

Handbook of Organizational Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 179-213

  Gillespie, Jennifer Z ^a   Greenberg, Jerald ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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