RT Article T1 RETRACTED ARTICLE: Modern Business Ethics Research: Concepts, Theories, and Relationships JF Journal of business ethics VO 91 IS 4 SP 587 OP 597 A1 Tseng, Hsing-Chau A1 Duan, Chi-Hsiang A1 Tung, Hui-Lien A1 Kung, Hsiang-Jui LA English PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V YR 2010 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785637649 AB The main purpose of this study is to explore and map the intellectual structure of business ethics studies during 1997–2006 by analyzing 85,000 cited references of 3,059 articles from three business ethics related journals in SSCI and SCI databases. In this article, co-citation analysis and social network analysis techniques are used to research intellectual structure of the business ethics literature. We are able to identify the important publications and the influential scholars as well as the correlations among these publications by analyzing citation and co-citation. Three factors emerged in this study are: (1) ethical/unethical decision making, (2) corporate governance and firm performance, and (3) ethical principles and code of conduct. K1 Social Network Analysis K1 Co-citation analysis K1 citation analysis K1 Intellectual structure K1 Business Ethics DO 10.1007/s10551-009-0133-x