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Will You Forgive Your Supervisor’s Wrongdoings? The Moral Licensing Effect of Ethical Leader Behaviors

Wang, Rong, Chan, Darius K.-S.·2019·Frontiers in Psychology
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00484
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Authors
Wang, R., & Chan, D. K.-S.
Venue
Frontiers in Psychology
Publisher
Frontiers Media SA
Published
2019-03-05
Volume
10
ISSN
1664-1078
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00484
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19
References
5
Licence
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)
Funders
National Natural Science Foundation of China

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