Developing a Framework for Analyzing the Causes of Corruption

Subject Areas : Environmental Management

Ali Naghi Mashayekhi ¹ , Mehran Sepehri ² , Seyed Mohammad Amin Aghamiri ³

1 - Graduate School of Management and Economics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
2 - Graduate School of Management and Economics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
3 - Graduate School of Management and Economics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2021-04-24 Accepted : 2021-07-05 Published : 2022-06-01

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