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The Narcissism and Moral Mazes of Corporate Life: A Comment on the Writings of Howard Schwartz and Robert Jackall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Thomas W. Norton
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Abstract

A growing number of organizational theorists have become skeptical about some of the more hallowed ideas of their field. They sense that there is a serious divergence between the nature of organizational life as it is described in theory and as it is experienced in practice. And they believe, therefore, that some corrective efforts are in order to redress this problem.

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 75 - 81
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1992

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