The Quality of Business Ethics Journals: An Assessment Based on Application

Business and Society

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 188-213

  Beets, S Douglas ^a   Lewis, Bruce R ^a   Brower, Holly H ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ethics journal quality; ethics journal rankings; journal lists

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951757895     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650313478974     Document Type: Article

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