Ethical Decision Making and the Employed Lawyer

This article addresses one of the more disturbing questions raised by the major financial failures of the recent past; namely, how it could be that professionals, highly trained both in ethics and technical disciplines, should apparently collude with management in corporate misbehaviour. The article...

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Authors: Gunz, Sally (Author) ; Gunz, Hugh (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2007
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2007, Volume: 81, Issue: 4, Pages: 927
Further subjects:B Identity Theory
B Ethical Dilemma
B employed lawyer
B Ethical decision making
B Professions
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