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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Modern Business Ethics Research: Concepts, Theories, and Relationships

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Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to explore and map the intellectual structure of business ethics studies during 1997–2006 by analyzing 85,000 cited references of 3,059 articles from three business ethics related journals in SSCI and SCI databases. In this article, co-citation analysis and social network analysis techniques are used to research intellectual structure of the business ethics literature. We are able to identify the important publications and the influential scholars as well as the correlations among these publications by analyzing citation and co-citation. Three factors emerged in this study are: (1) ethical/unethical decision making, (2) corporate governance and firm performance, and (3) ethical principles and code of conduct.

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  1. Chung-Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Hsing-Chau Tseng & Chi-Hsiang Duan

  2. Paine College, 1235 15th St., Augusta, GA, 30901, U.S.A.

    Hui-Lien Tung

  3. Georgia Southern University, P.O. Box 7998, Statesboro, GA, 30460, U.S.A.

    Hsiang-Jui Kung

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The Editor-in-Chief and Springer wish to inform readers of this journal that, in accordance with Springer’s Policy on Publishing Integrity, this paper has been retracted because it contained material previously published by others without appropriate acknowledgement.

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Tseng, HC., Duan, CH., Tung, HL. et al. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Modern Business Ethics Research: Concepts, Theories, and Relationships. J Bus Ethics 91, 587–597 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-009-0133-x

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