Do Competitive Environments Lead to the Rise and Spread of Unethical Behavior? Parallels from Enron
While top-down descriptors have received much attention in explaining corruption, we develop a grassroots model to describe structural factors that may influence the emergence and spread of an individual’s (un)ethical behavior within organizations. We begin with a discussion of the economics justifi...
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2008
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2008, Volume: 83, Issue: 4, Pages: 703-723 |
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theory of planned behavior
B spread of unethical behavior B Social Network B Corruption B grassroots model B Enron B Diffusion |
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