RETRACTED ARTICLE: Modern Business Ethics Research: Concepts, Theories, and Relationships
Hsing-Chau Tseng, Chi-Hsiang Duan, Hui-Lien Tung, Hsiang-Jui Kung
Journal of Business Ethics · 2010 · Volume 91 · Issue 4
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0133-x
Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to explore and map the intellectual structure of business ethics studies during 1997–2006 by analyzing 85,000 cited references of 3,059 articles from three business ethics related journals in SSCI and SCI databases. In this article, co-citation analysis and social network analysis techniques are used to research intellectual structure of the business ethics literature. We are able to identify the important publications and the influential scholars as well as the correlations among these publications by analyzing citation and co-citation. Three factors emerged in this study are: (1) ethical/unethical decision making, (2) corporate governance and firm performance, and (3) ethical principles and code of conduct.
Keywords
business ethics, intellectual structure, citation analysis, co-citation analysis, social network analysis
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