Publication and Credit
acknowledgment
authorship
collaboration
Ethics and the Law
Intellectual Property and Proprietary Knowledge
Type: Cases
Type: Historical Case
Setting: Corporate
University
Research

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Informal Discussions/Formal Authority

Commentary: Informal Discussions/Formal Authority

Deborah Johnson's commentary on how the vagueness and uncertainty of conventions on credit and ownership create subtle but complex problems in the practice of science, also illustrating the subtleties of the authority relationship between student and professor.

Cite this page: "Informal Discussions/Formal Authority" Online Ethics Center for Engineering 2/16/2006 8:43:31 AM National Academy of Engineering Accessed: Friday, January 09, 2009 <www.onlineethics.org/CMS/research/rescases/gradres/gradresv1/informal.aspx>

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