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An Analysis of the Ethics Infrastructure and Ethical Climate in Slovenian Public Administration

By: Janez Stare and  Maja Klun  
Open Access
|Dec 2016

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Language: English
Page range: 147 - 164
Published on: Dec 30, 2016
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