Analysis of the intellectual structure of global studies of "management ethics" based on used concepts in the last three decades

the purpose of this descriptive-analytical research is to identify and analyze the intellectual structure of "management ethics" studies based on related words, by dividing scientific areas in the web of science in the last three decades. In practice, with scientometric approach and methods such as content analysis, co-word and social network analysis by using data analysis software including HistCite, Bibexcel, Gephi, Spss, VosViewer is done. The results show that these interdisciplinary studies have an average incremental growth rate of 15.59% per year. The highest participation in the production of scientific works is related to the fields of business economics, social sciences, psychology, environmental sciences and public administration. co-word clustering led to 6, 5, 7, 6 and 4 clusters. the lowest belong to the field of public administration. The highest degree of centrality is related to the keywords of organizational social responsibility, leader-member exchange, and sustainability; the keywords of organizational social responsibility, transitional leadership and sustainability have The most centrality of closeness and corporate social responsibility, semantics and sustainability have the most intermediate centrality and are the most important concepts that have shaped the memory of management ethics knowledge. According to the findings, the field of business economics and social sciences have the most common topics with 407 cases, 98.3% overlap. Also, the five areas studied are significantly different in terms of the number of citations received and the number of scientific publications.