The Journal of Business Ethics: 2001-2010

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to characterize through bibliometric tools the intellecual development of the Journal of Business Ethics from 2000 to 2010. The methodology used had three big phases: The collection of relevant information from the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) on the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), the transformation of information by descriptive and co-occurrence analysis and the results generation. The main results shows patterns and regularities related to the scientific productivity, main authors, journals, institutes, countries and the relevant key topics and their relations. The results indicate that major key topics studied are corporate social responsibility, ethics and stakeholder; and some important emergent topics are job satisfation, value based management, innovation and social network.