1. Page  1 The Journal of Business Ethics: 2001 – 2010 Hugo Martinez hugo.martinez@correo.uis.edu.cohugo.martinez@correo.uis.edu.co Jhuliana Galvis divfinan4@uis.edu.codivfinan4@uis.edu.co Edna Bravo erbravoi@uis.edu.co; edna.bravo@upc.eduerbravoi@uis.edu.coedna.bravo@upc.edu

2. Final remarks and Conclusions Index Methodology Bibliometrics as a research Field FindingsGeneral objective

3. The objective of this paper is to characterize through bibliometric tools the intellectual development of the Journal of Business Ethics from 2001 to 2010.

4. Bibliometrics as a research Field The purpose of Bibliometrics is to describe literary production, patterns of influence and the cognitive structure in a given field – e.g. authors, journals, countries, core themes and collaboration between authors. These techniques have been proved to overcome some obstacles of distortion related to the subjectivity in assessments (Aksnes & Taxt, 2004) using reliable data and quantitative analysis to described and map some external and internal properties of a scientific field (Estabrooks et al., 2004).

5. Methodology Three methodology phases were used to achieve the research objectives: (i) The collection of relevant information from ISI (SCCI) data bases. (ii) the transformation of information using software designed to assist analysis of bibliometric data. (iii) the results generation. 26232045

6. Findings Figure 1. Distribution of published articles

7. Findings CountryFrequenciesCountryFrequencies USA983France29 Canada218Italy26 England192Finland24 Australia124Norway24 Netherlands97South Korea23 Peoples R China85Sweden22 Spain85Turkey22 Taiwan66Switzerland19 Belgium33South Africa17 Germany33India16 Table 1. Ranking most productive countries

8. Findings Figure 3. Evolution top 5 most productive countries"

9. Findings Keyword US A Canad a Englan d Australi a Netherland s Peoples R China Spai n Taiwa n Belgiu m German y Corporate social responsability 884152182311208711 Ethics1511922208108211 Business ethics99161112979656 Stakeholder40112058310272 Corporate governance 2812921244 1 Ethical decision making 30565 132 China16555 20 1 Corruption236411422 Code of ethics265125121 Gender22235 2 122 Culture2323114 3 Trust174331 5 Value123412112 2 Leadership16514321 13 Fair Trade188 2 Table 4. The most used keyword by Country

10. Findings Table 5. The most used keyword by author

11. Findings

12. Final remarks and Conclusions The co-occurrence analysis can propose influential terms and theories about a specific phenomenon under study that can be use to make the research process more efficient. Latin American and African countries need to be more proactive on the research on the topics studied in the journal. In these countries the corruption is one of the most problematic factors for doing business. The results indicate that major key topics studied are corporate social responsibility, ethics and stakeholder; and some important emergent topics are job satisfaction, value based management, innovation and social network.

13. Page  13 Thank You The Journal of Business Ethics: 2001 – 2010 Hugo Martinez hugo.martinez@correo.uis.edu.cohugo.martinez@correo.uis.edu.co Jhuliana Galvis divfinan4@uis.edu.codivfinan4@uis.edu.co Edna Bravo erbravoi@uis.edu.co; edna.bravo@upc.eduerbravoi@uis.edu.coedna.bravo@upc.edu