Business Ethics Quarterly is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 that publishes theoretical and empirical research relevant to the ethics of business

Business ethics

Business ethics is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment. It applies to all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to the conduct of individuals and entire organizations.Business...

. This interdisciplinary journal publishes articles and reviews on a broad range of topics, including the internal ethics of business organizations, the role of business organizations in larger social, political, and cultural frameworks, and the ethical quality of market

Free market

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-based societies and market-based relationships. Contributions are accepted from all disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and various professional fields. Business Ethics Quarterly is the journal of the Society for Business Ethics

Society for Business Ethics

The Society for Business Ethics is a non-profit organization established in 1980 to promote the advancement and understanding of ethics in business. Its mission is to provide a forum in which moral, legal, empirical, and philosophical issues of business ethics may be openly discussed and analyzed...

 and is published on a non-profit basis by the Philosophy Documentation Center

Philosophy Documentation Center

The Philosophy Documentation Center is a non-profit publisher and resource center dedicated to providing affordable access to a wide range of materials in applied ethics, classics, philosophy, religious studies, and related disciplines...

. Notable contributors include Robert Audi

Robert Audi

Robert Audi is an American philosopher whose major work has focused on epistemology, ethics—especially on ethical intuitionism-and the theory of action. He is O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and previously held a Chair in the Business School there...

, Kunal Basu

Kunal Basu

Kunal Basu is an Indian author of English fiction who has written three novels – The Opium Clerk , The Miniaturist , and Racists...

, Norman E. Bowie

Norman E. Bowie

Norman E. Bowie is a professor of strategic management and of philosophy. He teaches in both of those departments at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota....

, Thomas Donaldson

Thomas Donaldson (professor)

Thomas Donaldson is The Mark O. Winkelman Professor in Ethics and Law at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an expert in the areas of business ethics, values, and leadership.-Publications:...

, Thomas W. Dunfee, Amitai Etzioni

Amitai Etzioni

Amitai Etzioni is a German-Israeli-American sociologist.-Biography:In 1933, Amitai Etzioni was only four years old when the Nazis rose to power in Germany. He was separated from his family but reunited with them by the year 1947...

, R. Edward Freeman

R. Edward Freeman

R. Edward Freeman is an American philosopher and professor of business administration at the Darden School of the University of Virginia. He has also taught at the University of Minnesota and the Wharton School. Freeman is particularly known for his work on stakeholder theory and on business works...

, Michael C. Jensen, Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty

Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher. He had a long and diverse academic career, including positions as Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University...

, Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...

, Robert C. Solomon

Robert C. Solomon

Robert C. Solomon was a professor of continental philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin in the USA.-Early life:...

, and Linda Klebe Treviño. The editor in chief is Denis G. Arnold at the Belk College of Business, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Subjects covered and indexing

The journal has published original research on ethical issues in the following areas:

• Accounting
• Agency theory and ethics
• Behavioral ethics (e.g., moral identity, decision making, etc.)
• Business ethics and the global economy
• Corporate citizenship & corporate social responsibility
• Employment
• Finance & shareholder/investor ethics
• Government regulation and law
• Health care ethics
• Justice in organizations
• Leadership
• Management ethics
• Marketing & sales ethics
• Neo-institutional studies of business ethics practices
• Neuroscientific and evoluationary approaches to ethics
• Religion, religious ethics, and business
• Stakeholder Theory
• Trust within and between organizations
• Virtue theory

The journal is abstracted and indexed by ABI/INFORM, ATLA Religion Database

ATLA Religion Database

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, Business ASAP, Business Source, Business & Corporate Resource Center, Business Periodicals Index, Corporate ResourceNet, Dow Jones Insight, Emerald Reviews, Index Philosophicus, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Medline, PAIS International, Philosopher's Index, Philosophy Research Index

Philosophy Research Index

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, ProQuest

ProQuest

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 Social Science Journals, Public Affairs Index, Scopus

Scopus

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, Social Sciences Citation Index

Social Sciences Citation Index

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, and Wilson Business Abstracts.

External links

• Society for Business Ethics
• Philosophy Documentation Center