A Five-Year Review, Update, and Assessment of Ethics and Governance in Strategic Management Journal

Christopher Robertson (), Dane Blevins () and Tom Duffy ()

Journal of Business Ethics, 2013, vol. 117, issue 1, 85-91

Abstract: Although business ethics has a long history as a core theme within the realm of strategic management it has not received considerable attention in top strategy journals until recently. In this paper, we assess the state of business ethics research published over a 5-year period (2006–2010) in Strategic Management Journal to ascertain whether there has been an increase in business ethics research published in the top strategy outlet. The results of our content analysis reveal that ethics research in SMJ is indeed on the rise yet this research stream is still underrepresented with only 5.8 % of all articles published over the five-year period having an ethics theme. Moreover, the link between Corporate Social Performance and Financial Performance was identified as the top theme during the review period. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

Keywords: Corporate governance; Social responsibility; Ethics; Strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1511-3

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