Global business ethics: Regulation, code, or self-restraint

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 625-642

  Cavanagh, Gerald F ^a,b,c,d  

^a C T Fisher III Dept Bus Ethics

^b UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY   (United States)

^c SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 8644284791     PISSN: 1052150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/beq200414436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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