Deepening Ethical Analysis in Business Ethics

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The last two years at the Journal of Business Ethics have been very exciting. In the first year, we immersed ourselves in the legacy of the previous editors (see Freeman and Greenwood 2016) and experienced just how strongly various scholarly communities felt about the journal. In the second year, we put in place many changes aimed at broadening the intellectual base of the journal and reinvigorating a more distinct focus on ethics (see Greenwood and Freeman 2017). We speak often about the necessity for centrality of ethics to the scholarship published at the journal, but what does this mean? Indeed, the question of what we look for in articles submitted to the Journal of Business Ethics is often asked. As you can imagine, there is no one-size-fits-all answer. However, in partial response to the question, we would say that we look for depth–depth of ethical analysis—that can take many different forms. Here are some of the different ways in which ethical analysis can be brought to life through deep consideration. …