Malleable character: organizational behavior meets virtue ethics and situationism.
This paper introduces a body of research on Organizational Behavior and Industrial/Organizational Psychology (OB/IO) that expands the range of empirical evidence relevant to the ongoing character-situation debate. This body of research, mostly neglected by moral philosophers, provides important insi...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 179; no. 12; pp. 3535 - 3564 |
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