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The four main journals in the field are the Business
Ethics Quarterly (BEQ), the Journal
of Business Ethics (JBE), Business
Ethics: A European Review (BE:ER), and Journal
of Business Ethics Education (JBEE). In addition, there are specialist journals
such as the Business and Society Review, Corporate Governance: An International
Review, Corporate Governance: the International Journal of Business and Society
and Philosophy of Management that are also directly concerned with business ethics
issues, as well as an increasing occurrence of business ethics related papers
in mainstream or specialist management journals such as the Academy of Management
Review and Long Range Planning (including special editions devoted to business
ethics topics). Of the four main journals, it is probably true to say the BEQ
is the most philosophically orientated. It is certainly the most heavily American
in terms of contributors and focus (reflecting, perhaps, the fact that it is the
official journal of the US-based Society
for Business Ethics (SBE)). The JBE is both rather more social science
orientated and more international, with something of a balance between, North
America, continental Europe, the British Isles and, to a lesser extent, the rest
of the world in terms of contributors and focus. (There is also an informal connection
to the European counterpart of the SBE, the European
Business Ethics Network (EBEN), in that papers from the EBEN annual conference
are published in a special conference edition of the JBE). When first established,
BE:ER had a rather less academic focus than BEQ or JBE, with many of the articles
contributed by practitioners or intended as introductory. However, it has since
become very much a mainstream academic journal, publishing a particularly diverse
range of articles, with contributions of both a philosophic and social science
orientation from business ethics specialists as well as very often including contributions
from those who are not business ethics specialists but have a concern with the
ethical dimension to the area of business they are academically or professionally
concerned with, be it HRM, marketing, finance, or whatever. In terms of contributors
and focus it is broadly international, though rather more European than North
American, and rather more UK orientated than continental European. (There is an
informal connection to the UK division of EBEN, European
Business Ethics Network - UK (EBEN-UK), in that papers from the EBEN-UK annual
conference are published in a special conference edition of BE:ER). As
the name clearly conveys, JBEE is concerned with the teaching of business ethics.
As such it publishes articles on a range of topics relating to pedagogical concerns
such as Teaching Methods, Teaching
Issues, and Curriculum matters in relation
to business ethics. (The JBEE occupies a position previously filled by the journal
Teaching Business Ethics which was incorporated into the JBE in 2004 and had published
papers from what was an annual Teaching Business Ethics
Conference held in the UK.)
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