The University of St. Thomas

Business Ethics

Business Ethics: Selected Resources

Books

In the CLICnet library catalog, conduct a subject search for "business ethics." To narrow your search, use the advanced search form to combine additional terms with this phrase. Examples:

  • business ethics + industrial relations
  • business ethics + business etiquette
  • business ethics + Christian ethics

More materials may be found by using alternative search terms using these subject headings, which are related to business ethics:

  • wealth moral and ethical aspects
  • business intelligence
  • corporations corrupt practices
  • social responsibility of business

General Reference Works

Journal Articles

For topical searches in business ethics, try the Business Source Premier, Philosopher's Index, Academic Search Premier, or Expanded Academic ASAP databases. "Business Ethics" is a subject heading in all of these databases except the Philosopher's Index.

For some specific journal titles focused on business ethics, see:

Web Resources

  • ALA Best Business Web Sites: Business Ethics - a directory of significant sites, reviewed and selected by the American Library Association's business reference section.
  • BELL: The Business Ethics Links Library - a starting point for research in corporate ethics and social responsibility. Provides access to codes of ethics for U.S. companies and trade and professional associations, ethics sites at college and university business programs, industry information resources, and company promotion of social responsibility covering such topics as arts assistance, environmental clean up, charitable giving and community programming.
  • Business Ethics - A browsable directory of business ethics resources that includes selected articles and publications, case studies, corporate codes of ethics, professional organizations, and resource centers.  Directory created and maintained by Sharon Stoerger, a University of Illinois librarian.
  • BusinessEthics.ca - Canadian focus with relevance to the United States; articles, case studies, and links to international resources.
  • Center for Ethics and Business - at Loyola Marymount University; ethics toolbox provides articles and an ethics quiz.
  • CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire Service provides an online directory of more than 1,000 organizations worldwide concerned with corporate responsibility; free press releases; a basic primer on the concept of social responsibility; a database of company-issued full-text reports of corporate sustainability and corporate citizenship; environmental, health, and safety reports.
  • Ethics Resource Center - Includes articles, books, links, news, speeches and other materials. Browse the Resources collection either by material type or by subject.  An extensive list of articles dealing with business ethics and related issues can be found in the section, Organizational Ethics Articles: Business.
  • Markkula Center for Applied Ethics - Business ethics articles; use the pull-down menu to select articles from other related categories (e.g. "corporate wrongdoing" or "global leadership and ethics").
  • Knowledge@Wharton: Business Ethics - Free registration required to access articles.
  • Speaking of Faith: The Gods of Business - American Public Media site containing the audio broadcast and presentation materials from a February 2006 program on business ethics seen through the prism of the world's major religions.
  • Washington Post Special Reports: Corporate Ethics - a regular compilation of articles a  outlining recent corporate scandals involving ethics violations compiled by the Washington Post. Free registration required to access articles.

Blogs

  • Business Ethics Forum
    Discussion weblog on business ethics designed for those "interested in promoting ethical business practices, moral behavior and responsible management in corporations and institutions." Topics include best practices, ideas, news, models, methods, theories, tools.