Dialectical Interactions: Decoupling and Integrating Ethics in Ethics Initiatives

Evidence abounds that when ethics initiatives are decoupled from the actual work of organizations, ethics policies may become little more than “window dressing” (Weaver, Trevino, and Cochran 1999; Collen and Gonella 2002). We found, however, an unexpected, positive feature of decoupling in the study...

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Authors: Jovanovic, Spoma (Author) ; Wood, Roy V. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2007
In: Business ethics quarterly
Year: 2007, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 217-238
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