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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. 10.2% 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%
794
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+24%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
57% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Business Law and Ethics

Which countries lead Business Law and Ethics research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (451 and 80 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 451 works
  2. 2 India 80 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 58 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 50 works
  5. 5 China 36 works
  6. 6 Australia 33 works
  7. 7 Germany 23 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 22 works
  9. 9 Canada 19 works
  10. 10 France 18 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: 57.2%India: 10.2%United Kingdom: 7.3%Indonesia: 6.3%6 others listed: 19.0%57%largest
United States451 · 57.2%India80 · 10.2%United Kingdom58 · 7.3%Indonesia50 · 6.3%6 others listed150 · 19.0%

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

Which institutions lead Business Law and Ethics research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Michigan publishes the most Business Law and Ethics research, followed by Indiana University and College of Law.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of MichiganUnited States 13 works
  2. 2 Indiana UniversityUnited States 7 works
  3. 3 College of LawLatvia 7 works
  4. 4 University of FloridaUnited States 6 works
  5. 5 Fordham UniversityUnited States 6 works
  6. 6 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany 5 works
  7. 7 Cornell UniversityUnited States 5 works
  8. 8 University of GeorgiaUnited States 5 works
  9. 9 University of VirginiaUnited States 5 works
  10. 10 American Civil Liberties UnionUnited States 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Business Law and Ethics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Business Law and Ethics include Michael E. Porter.

  1. 1 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations

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

What are the most cited papers in Business Law and Ethics?

The most cited paper in Business Law and Ethics is "Ways Women Lead" (Judy B. Rosener, 2011), with 1,185 citations. Next come "Gender-based Barriers to Senior Management Positions: Understanding the Scarcity of Female CEOs" (875) and "The multicultural organization" (826).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ways Women Lead Judy B. Rosener · Issues in business ethics Book chapter 2011 1,185
2 Gender-based Barriers to Senior Management Positions: Understanding the Scarcity of Female CEOs Judith G. Oakley · Journal of Business Ethics Oct 2000 875
3 The multicultural organization Taylor Cox · Academy of Management Perspectives Feb 1991 826
4 From affirmative action to affirming diversity. Thomas Rr · PubMed 14 May 1990 761
5 Ethical and Legal Foundations of Relational Marketing Exchanges Gregory T. Gundlach, Patrick E. Murphy · Journal of Marketing Oct 1993 742
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Business Law and Ethics research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 32 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 21 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 13 works
  4. 4 Ann ArborUnited States 13 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 8 works
  6. 6 RigaLatvia 8 works
  7. 7 JakartaIndonesia 7 works
  8. 8 MelbourneAustralia 7 works
  9. 9 BengaluruIndia 7 works
  10. 10 ChicagoUnited States 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Washington D.C.US · 21.2 works5.4×
  2. New YorkUS · 32.4 works4.5×
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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.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of MichiganUnited States 10.011.6%9.0×13 +31.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Business Law and Ethics, country by country

Is Business Law and Ethics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Business Law and Ethics.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Business Law and Ethics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0034% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Business Law and Ethics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Business Law and Ethics11.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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.

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