Organizational Ethics Research: A Systematic Review of Methods and Analytical Techniques

Michael S. McLeod (), G. Tyge Payne () and Robert E. Evert ()
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Michael S. McLeod: Texas Tech University
G. Tyge Payne: Texas Tech University
Robert E. Evert: Texas Tech University

Journal of Business Ethics, 2016, vol. 134, issue 3, No 6, 429-443

Abstract: Abstract Ethics are of interest to business scholars because they influence decisions, behaviors, and outcomes. While scholars have increasingly shown interest in business ethics as a research topic, there are a mounting number of studies that examine ethical issues at the organizational level of analysis. This manuscript reports the results of a systematic review of empirical research on organizational ethics published in a broad sample of business journals over a 33-year period (1980–2012). A total of 184 articles are analyzed to reveal gaps in the literature and, subsequently, lead to suggestions for future research; this is done in an effort to stimulate and perpetuate high quality research that more broadly impacts business scholars and practitioners.

Keywords: Analytics; Methods; Statistics; Empirical; Ethics; Virtues; Organization; Firm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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