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It is the purpose of this study to identify the most-referenced authors, works, periodicals and publishers in business ethics. A computer analysis was made of over eight hundred references taken from fifty-seven recent articles. The result is a special type of bibliography designed to conserve time for readers in this field. The two most-cited authors were Milton Friedman and Christopher Stone; while the most-referenced works were Where the Law Ends by Stone, “Is the Ethics of Business Changing?” by Brenner and Molander, and Ethical Theory and Business edited by Beauchamp and Bowie.
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John E. Fleming is Professor of Management at the University of Southern California. Previously he was a manager in industry. His most important publication is ‘A Suggested Approach to Linking Decision Styles with Business Ethics’, Journal of Business Ethics 4, pp. 137–144.
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Fleming, J.E. Authorities in business ethics. J Bus Ethics 6, 213–217 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382866
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382866