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Business Law and Ethics

Business Law and Ethics is a research topic within Accounting. Science Explorer counts 7.8k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of business law, competitive advantage, and ethical implications. It delves into topics such as legal astuteness, contract visualization, employment discrimination, corporate social responsibility, leadership orientation, employee motivation, benefit corporations, and legal strategy. The papers also discuss the use of process simulation in understanding and improving legal processes within organizations.

  • Legal Astuteness
  • Contract Visualization
  • Employment Discrimination
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Ethical Implications
  • Leadership Orientation
  • Employee Motivation
  • Benefit Corporations
  • Legal Strategy
  • Process Simulation
Research works
7.8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
806
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-34%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Business Law and Ethics research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (351 and 43 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 351 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 43 works
  3. 3 India 43 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 43 works
  5. 5 Australia 26 works
  6. 6 China 20 works
  7. 7 Germany 19 works
  8. 8 Canada 15 works
  9. 9 Nigeria 14 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 12 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 59.9%United Kingdom: 7.3%India: 7.3%Indonesia: 7.3%6 others listed: 18.1%60%largest
United States351 · 59.9%United Kingdom43 · 7.3%India43 · 7.3%Indonesia43 · 7.3%6 others listed106 · 18.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Business Law and Ethics research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Michigan publishes the most Business Law and Ethics research, followed by College of Law and University of Florida.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of Michigan United States 12 works
  2. 2 College of Law Latvia 6 works
  3. 3 University of Florida United States 5 works
  4. 4 Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy Germany 5 works
  5. 5 Cornell University United States 4 works
  6. 6 American Civil Liberties Union United States 4 works
  7. 7 Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia 4 works
  8. 8 Pennsylvania State University United States 4 works
  9. 9 Fordham University United States 4 works
  10. 10 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey United States 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Business Law and Ethics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Business Law and Ethics include Robert W. McGee.

  1. 1 Robert W. McGee 1.9k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Business Law and Ethics research done?

The largest centres of Business Law and Ethics research in 2022–2025 are New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States), Ann Arbor (United States) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in New York.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 New York United States 24 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C. United States 16 works
  3. 3 Ann Arbor United States 12 works
  4. 4 London United Kingdom 10 works
  5. 5 Riga Latvia 7 works
  6. 6 Jakarta Indonesia 7 works
  7. 7 Melbourne Australia 6 works
  8. 8 Philadelphia United States 6 works
  9. 9 Chicago United States 6 works
  10. 10 Beijing China 6 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. New YorkUS · 24.4 works4.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Business Law and Ethics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Business Law and Ethics?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Michigan score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Michigan United States 0.00.0%11.4×12 -4.2%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Business Law and Ethics research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 34% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025.

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Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.