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Stressing the Central Role of Integrity for Successful Firms

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Integrity in Organizations

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Integrity in the workplace is the primary challenge that firms face to maintain their position in the market or, better, to be successful in the present changing era. Firms must modify their internal and external behavior to be able to act successfully in the current economic environment.

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  1. Ernestina Giudici
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  2. Federica Caboni
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  1. Goethe Business School, Germany

    Wolfgang Amann

  2. Silesian University of Technology, Poland

    Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch (Associate Professor of Management) (Associate Professor of Management)

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Giudici, E., Caboni, F., Ramos, B.F.P.G. (2013). Stressing the Central Role of Integrity for Successful Firms. In: Amann, W., Stachowicz-Stanusch, A. (eds) Integrity in Organizations. Humanism in Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137280350_12

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