When Morals go Abroad – A Bibliometric Perspective of Cross-Cultural Business Ethics

In today’s globalised business environment, companies face the challenge of creating corporate ethics policies that transcend cultures and geographic boundaries, connecting stakeholders worldwide. This article aims to conduct a literature review of the emerging field of cross-cultural business ethics through the lens of a bibliometric analysis. On a sample of 70 articles retrieved from the Web of Science Database, we conducted a cocitation analysis in order to identify the intellectual structure of the field. Results emphasised four current perspectives followed by scholars within studies that reunite corporate ethics and cultural issues: international differences in corporate social responsibility, cross-cultural perspectives on codes of ethics, decision-making issues in international environments, and cross-cultural ethics issues in management. This study has relevant theoretical implications as it contributes to clarifying the current directions in cross-cultural business ethics by structuring the various perspectives from the field.