Patterns of Research Productivity in the Business Ethics Literature: Insights from Analyses of Bibliometric Distributions

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 137-151

  Talukdar, Debabrata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

bibliometric distributions; business ethics; cumulative advantage; empirical regularity; knowledge creation; Lotka's Law; research productivity patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650184672     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-010-0539-5     Document Type: Article

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