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Empirical research on business ethics of SMEs in the V4 countries

Ethics & Bioethics
Volume 13 (2023): Issue 1-2 (June 2023)
By: Katarina Zvaríková,  Dagmar Bařinová,  Jaroslav Belás and  Ľubomir Palčák  
Open Access
|May 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2023-0007 | Journal eISSN: 2453-7829 | Journal ISSN: 1338-5615
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Language: English
Page range: 51 - 63
Published on: May 27, 2023
Published by: University of Prešov
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs),
business ethics,
countries of Visegrad
Related subjects:
Philosophy,
Ethics,
Applied ethics,
Bio ethics and ethics of medicine, ethics of science,
Business ethics,
Ethics of ecology,
Applied ethics, other

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