Journal of Business Ethics

*Journal of Business Ethics*
Discipline	Business ethics
Language	English
Edited by	Michelle Greenwood, Gazi Islam
Publication details
History	1982–present
Publisher	Springer
Frequency	28 issues/year
Impact factor	6.1 (2022)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	J. Bus. Ethics
Indexing;
ISSN	0167-4544 (print); 1573-0697 (web);
JSTOR	01674544
Links
	Journal homepage;

The Journal of Business Ethics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer. The Journal of Business Ethics is one of the journals used by the Financial Times for in compiling the Business Schools research rank.^[1]

The Journal of Business Ethics was founded by Alex C. Michalos (Institute for Social Research and Evaluation, University of Northern British Columbia) and Deborah C. Poff (Department of Philosophy, Carleton University) and originally published by D. Reidel. Professors Michalos and Poff served as the journal's Editors in Chief from its inception in 1982 to 2016. They were succeeded by R. Edward Freeman (Darden Business School, University of Virginia) and Michelle Greenwood (Department, of Management, Monash University) in 2016. Professor Freeman retired from the Journal in 2021 and was succeeded by Gazi Islam (Grenoble Ecole de Management). Consequently, the current Editors in Chief are Michelle Greenwood and Gazi Islam. D. Reidel became part of Springer in 2004.

Aims and Scope

The Journal of Business Ethics aims^[2] to improve the human condition by providing a public forum for discussion and debate about ethical issues related to business. The journal's emphasis is on the "ethics" of business ethics, with the goal of promoting dialogue between diverse publics, both academic and civil society.

The editors encourage a broad scope, and the JBE publishes original articles from a wide variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives concerning ethical issues related to business that bring something new or unique to the discourse in their field. The term 'business' is understood in a wide sense to include all systems involved in the exchange of goods and services, while 'ethics' concerns human action aimed at promoting a good life. Systems of production, consumption, marketing, advertising, social and economic accounting, labour relations, public relations and organisational behaviour are analysed from a moral viewpoint. Speculative philosophy as well as reports of empirical research are welcomed. The style and level of dialogue involve all who are interested in business ethics – civil society, business actors, universities, government agencies and consumer groups.

Sections

To accommodate this wide scope, the journal has within it the following 33 sections:

Accounting and Business Ethics
Arts, Humanities, and Business Ethics
Behavioural Business Ethics
Book (and More) Reviews
Business Ethics Learning and Education
Consumer Ethics
Corporate Governance and Business Ethics
Corporate Responsibility: Theoretical/Qualitative Issues
Corporate Responsibility: Quantitative Issues
Corporate Sustainability and Business Ethics
Critical Studies and Business Ethics
Cross-cultural Management and Business Ethics
Economics and Business Ethics
Environment and Business Ethics
Feminisms and Business Ethics
Finance and Business Ethics
Global Issues and Business Ethics
Human Resource Management and Development and Business Ethics
Labour Relations and Business Ethics
Law, Public Policy, and Business Ethics
Leadership and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives and Qualitative Analysis
Leadership and Ethics: Quantitative Analysis
Marketing Ethics
Organisational Behaviour and Business Ethics
Philosophy and Business Ethics
Philosophy and Business Ethics
Psychology and Business Ethics
Religion, Spirituality and Business Ethics
Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics
Social Entrepreneurship and Ethics
Sociology and Business Ethics
Strategy and Business Ethics
Technology and Business Ethics

Descriptions and the names of the editors of each of these sections can be found on the Journal's website.

Number of Volumes and Issues

The Journal Business Ethics publishes seven volumes per year with each volume made up of four issues, i.e., 28 issues per year. The journal also publishes four Special Issues per year. The full list of issues can be found at on the JBE's website.

Abstracted and Indexed in

ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide ANVUR Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List BFI List Baidu CLOCKSS CNKI CNPIEC Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences Dimensions EBSCO Book Review Digest Plus EBSCO Business Abstracts with Full Text EBSCO Business Source EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCO Education EBSCO Education Source EBSCO Health Business EBSCO Management Collection EBSCO Nonprofit Organization Reference Center EBSCO OmniFile ECONIS ERIH PLUS EconLit	Google Scholar JSTOR Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition Naver Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service PhilPapers Portico ProQuest ABI/INFORM ProQuest Art, Design and Architecture Collection ProQuest Arts & Humanities Database ProQuest Arts Premium Collection ProQuest-ExLibris Primo ProQuest-ExLibris Summon PsycINFO Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) SCImago SCOPUS Social Science Citation Index TD Net Discovery Service UGC-CARE List (India) Wanfang

Impact Factor and Ranking

The Journal of Business Ethics has an impact factor of 6.1 and a five-year impact factor of 8.1 (2022).^[3]

The Journal is ranked 3rd out of 57 journals in the category of "Ethics" and 52nd out of 154 journals in the category of "Business" by the Clarivates Journal Citation Reports® Ranking by Category.