Are the elderly really machiavellian? A reinterpretation of an unexpected finding
In an article published recently in theJournal of Business Ethics, Vitellet al. (1991) found that elderly respondents scored surprisingly high on a measure of Machiavellianism. This paper offers an alternative explanation for this unexpected result — it may be an artifact of the survey format employ...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
1994
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Journal of business ethics
Jahr: 1994, Band: 13, Heft: 9, Seiten: 757-758 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Unexpected Result
B Alternative Explanation B Business Ethic B Additional Research B Economic Growth |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In an article published recently in theJournal of Business Ethics, Vitellet al. (1991) found that elderly respondents scored surprisingly high on a measure of Machiavellianism. This paper offers an alternative explanation for this unexpected result — it may be an artifact of the survey format employed — and recommends additional research to help clarify the issues raised by Vitell and his colleagues. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/BF00881336 |