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Ethics in Business and Education

Ethics in Business and Education is a research topic within Information Systems and Management. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex landscape of ethical decision making in organizations, delving into topics such as moral identity, business ethics, whistleblowing, organizational culture, and the influence of cultural values. It investigates the role of social cognitive theory, corporate ethics, and the impact of professional education on ethical behavior.

  • Ethical Decision Making
  • Moral Identity
  • Business Ethics
  • Whistleblowing
  • Organizational Culture
  • Ethical Behavior
  • Social Cognitive Theory
  • Corporate Ethics
  • Professional Education
  • Cultural Values
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ethics in Business and Education

Which countries lead Ethics in Business and Education research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.1k and 436 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 China 436 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 336 works
  4. 4 India 286 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 265 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 253 works
  7. 7 Germany 191 works
  8. 8 Canada 169 works
  9. 9 Australia 140 works
  10. 10 Iran 114 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: 34.0%China: 13.1%Indonesia: 10.1%India: 8.6%6 others listed: 34.1%34%largest
United States1,127 · 34.0%China436 · 13.1%Indonesia336 · 10.1%India286 · 8.6%6 others listed1,132 · 34.1%

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

Which institutions lead Ethics in Business and Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Ethics in Business and Education research, followed by University of Virginia and Universiti Teknologi MARA.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 38 works
  2. 2 University of VirginiaUnited States 23 works
  3. 3 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 19 works
  4. 4 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 17 works
  5. 5 Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 16 works
  6. 6 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 16 works
  7. 7 Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 14 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 13 works
  9. 9 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 13 works
  10. 10 Virginia TechUnited States 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ethics in Business and Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ethics in Business and Education include Albert Bandura, Michael C. Jensen and Claes Fornell.

  1. 1 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  2. 2 Michael C. Jensen United States 203k citations
  3. 3 Claes Fornell United States 198k citations
  4. 4 Roy Frederick Baumeister United States 183k 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 Ethics in Business and Education?

The most cited paper in Ethics in Business and Education is "Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of who and What Really Counts" (Ronald K. Mitchell, Bradley R. Agle, Donna J. Wood, 1997), with 9,522 citations. Next come "The pyramid of corporate social responsibility: Toward the moral management of organizational stakeholders" (8,960) and "Corporate Social Responsibility: a Theory of the Firm Perspective" (5,797).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of who and What Really Counts Ronald K. Mitchell, Bradley R. Agle, Donna J. Wood · Academy of Management Review Oct 1997 9,522
2 The pyramid of corporate social responsibility: Toward the moral management of organizational stakeholders Archie B. Carroll · Business Horizons Open access Jul 1991 8,960
3 Corporate Social Responsibility: a Theory of the Firm Perspective Abagail McWilliams, Donald S. Siegel · Academy of Management Review 2001 5,797
4 Ethical leadership: A social learning perspective for construct development and testing Michael E. Brown, Linda Klebe Treviño, David A. Harrison · Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 28 Apr 2005 5,373
5 Misery Loves Companies: Rethinking Social Initiatives by Business Joshua D. Margolis, James P. Walsh · Administrative Science Quarterly Jun 2003 5,162
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Where is Ethics in Business and Education research done?

The largest centres of Ethics in Business and Education research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Istanbul (Türkiye) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 69 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 58 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 54 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 42 works
  5. 5 JakartaIndonesia 40 works
  6. 6 TehranIran 37 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 36 works
  8. 8 AnkaraTürkiye 31 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 30 works
  10. 10 SurabayaIndonesia 29 works
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Where is the best place to study Ethics in Business and Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Hong Kong and University of Virginia 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.

0%20%40%mean 18.95%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Hong K…Erasmus University R…Tilburg UniversityUniversity of Virginia
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

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
1Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 65.123.3%6.4×16 +6.7%
2University of Hong KongChina 63.631.7%2.0×9 +111.9%
3University of VirginiaUnited States 58.29.6%7.7×22 +60.3%
4Tilburg UniversityNetherlands 57.213.2%13.8×10 +85.9%
5Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 54.810.5%7.2×14 +88.4%
6University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 52.629.6%2.9×8 -4.1%
7University of AlabamaUnited States 52.421.2%7.2×9 +34.7%
8Renmin University of ChinaChina 50.822.2%7.0×11 +38.5%
9Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du NordFrance 49.415.7%88.6×8 +288.9%
10University of CalgaryCanada 48.712.5%3.7×12 +41.8%

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 Ethics in Business and Education, country by country

Is Ethics in Business and Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Ethics in Business and Education.

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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 Ethics in Business and Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Ethics in Business and Education0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ethics in Business and Education 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%Ethics in Business and Education10.7% 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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