Abstract
The purpose of this study is to retrieve and explore past studies done on ethical climate. A search using the bibliometric analysis method was made on the Web of Science (WoS) database for publications of between 1970 until 2020. The VOS Viewer software was used to retrieve and explore numerous aspects of these publications, such as author keywords, bibliographic coupling of the publications, journals, countries, and authors. Analysis indicated that the most prominent publication was, “Bad Apples, Bad Cases and Bad Barrels: Meta-Analytic evidence about sources of unethical decision at work” authored by Kish-Gephant, Harrison and Trevino (2010). It was also noted that the journal with the most impact was the Journal of Business Ethics followed by the journal of Nursing Ethics. The prominent countries engaged in ethical climate publications were: the USA, China and Turkey, in that order. Analysis also showed that the most prominent authors/researchers were Borhani and Fariba, with eight articles. In examining the concepts that were associated with ethnical climate, it was identified that ethical leadership, moral distress, organizational climate and employee burnout were the most frequently studied.
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