Corporate Codes of Conduct: The Effects of Code Content and Quality on Ethical Performance
Journal of Business EthicsPublished 4 November 2010
Patrick M. Erwin
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codes of conduct, codes of ethics, code content, code quality, ethical performance, CSR ranking system,
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