Science AI Journal
Decision Sciences · Research topic

Open research questions in Ethics in Business and Education

403 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 4,101 Ethics in Business and Education papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • The study identifies challenges related to the unique contextual challenges impacting SME sustainability and survival in Jordan. The study highlights the need for SMEs to balance environmental, social, and economic considerations to achieve long-term viability and competitive advantage.

    Ethical Entrepreneurial Leadership and Corporate Sustainable Development: A Resource-Based View of Competitive Advantage in Small and Medium Enterprises · 2025 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the literature regarding the integration of entrepreneurial capabilities with ethical leadership in SMEs. The study highlights the need for research on the mediating role of ethical leadership in the relationship between entrepreneurial skills and sustainability.

    Ethical Entrepreneurial Leadership and Corporate Sustainable Development: A Resource-Based View of Competitive Advantage in Small and Medium Enterprises · 2025 · DOI

  • This research is significant as it addresses the gap in understanding how ETL influences MV through these specific mediating and moderating mechanisms.

    Unveiling Employee Moral Voice in Vietnam’s Public Sector: An Integration of Ethical Leadership and Behavioral Integrity · 2025 · DOI

  • This study presents a groundbreaking exploration of the nexus between Ethical Leadership (ETL) and Moral Voice (MV) in Vietnam’s public sector, a context that has been underexplored in existing literature.

    Unveiling Employee Moral Voice in Vietnam’s Public Sector: An Integration of Ethical Leadership and Behavioral Integrity · 2025 · DOI

  • There is also a lack of data on the existing reporting mechanisms or preferred whistleblowing mechanisms in these institutions.

    Intention for internal whistleblowing to report sexual violence in higher education institutions: a Nigerian national study · 2024 · DOI

  • However, there is lack of data about whether the staff and students of these institutions have the intention to blow the whistle internally (within the institution) or not.

    Intention for internal whistleblowing to report sexual violence in higher education institutions: a Nigerian national study · 2024 · DOI

  • Although important for the leadership theory and practice, this association is scarcely covered by the literature.

    Influence of perceived congruence in basic moral values on perceived level of ethical leadership: A Russophone organization case · 2024 · DOI

  • Procedural and Distributive Justice 195 Limitations of the Present Study and Directions for Further Research The present study makes clear the importance of procedural fairness, but there are some limitations which need to be kept in mind when inter- preting these results.

    The role of procedural and distributive justice in organizational behavior · 1987 · DOI

  • Based on our t h a t business schools consider o f f e r i n g b u s i n e s s e t h i c s as a required course and s p e c i f i c a l l y recommend that: research, w e recommend 1) a business e t h i c s course be o f f e r e d i n an applied 2) e t h i c s form; q u a l i f i e d e t h i c a l t r a i n i n g t e a c h t h i s course; f a c u l t y possessing both business and 3) a foundation theory and business along w i t h case a n a l y s i s and s t u d e n t p a r t i c i p a t i o n b e emphasized; textbook on e t h i c a l 4) t h e c l a s s i n i t i a l l y b e an e l e c t i v e , b u t later f a c u l t y and content are deemed required when s a t i s f a c t o r y ; t h e class be r e l a t i v e l y s m a l l ; and t h e c l a s s be a s e n i o r - l e v e l o f f e r i n g . 5 ) 6) I f t h i s type of class i s n o t possible, then w e recommend, a l t e r n a t i v e l y that: 1) A business same team-teach t h e course f a c u l t y member, t h e e a r l i e r f a c u l t y member philosophy/religion a w i t h r e t a i n i n g t h e recommendation. E x i s t i n g Business and Society Courses b e expanded t o i n t h i s report.

    RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE TEACHING OF BUSINESS ETHICS IN THE UNDERGRADUATE BUSINESS CURRICULUM · 1987 · DOI

  • The study is limited by the use of hypothetical situations to assess the effects of test use on organizational image.

    Pre-employment honesty testing: Fakability, reactions of test takers, and company image · 1987 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the understanding of the factors influencing whistle-blowing intention among bank employees in Kitwe, Zambia. The study aims to explore the factors that influence the intention to whistle-blow among banking employees.

    Examining Factors Influencing Whistle-Blowing Intention in the Banking Sector in Kitwe, Zambia · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the literature on amoral management and its effects on workplace outcomes. The study highlights the need for further research on the mechanism by which amoral management affects employee admiration. The authors note that prior research has not fully explored the relationship between amoral management and moral decoupling.

    Forgetting Morals, Focusing on Performance: The Role of Moral Decoupling in Explaining Admiration of High-Performing/Amoral Managers · 2026 · DOI

  • It is unclear whether reasoning results in more ethical judgments or behaviours. US participants are outliers on various psychological and social characteristics.

    The relations between ethical reasoning and moral intuitions among engineering students in the US, Netherlands, and China · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the literature on the relationship between workplace ostracism and employees' political behavior. The study aims to investigate the mediating role of moral disengagement and the moderating role of supervisor-rated job performance in this relationship.

    Workplace ostracism and political behavior: a moderated mediation model of moral disengagement and supervisor-rated job performance · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should continue to explore the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and unethical pro-organizational behavior. Future research should consider the potential consequences of encouraging organizational citizenship behavior.

    Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Association between Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the literature on extra-role behaviors. The study highlights the need to explore the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and unethical pro-organizational behavior.

    Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Association between Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a lack of research on the relationships between self-leadership, involution stress, and academic ethics. Prior work has not fully explored the factors that influence academic ethics among university faculty members in China.

    The impact of self-leadership and involution stress on academic ethics among university faculty members in China · 2026 · DOI

  • The concept of organizational integrity is ambiguous and lacks clarity. The literature remains fragmented across disciplines. The study faces the challenge of reconciling ethical accountability with performance imperatives.

    Organizational Integrity Between Ethics and Performance: A Bibliometric Synthesis of 80 Years and Research Agenda · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should focus on deeper theoretical clarification of what integrity represents as a construct. Future research should explore the emergence of new research clusters and themes. Future research should investigate the practical implications of the study's findings.

    Organizational Integrity Between Ethics and Performance: A Bibliometric Synthesis of 80 Years and Research Agenda · 2026 · DOI

  • Measuring legitimacy poses various challenges for researchers, including issues related to the level and type of judgment. The study highlights the need to examine how legitimacy is constructed and maintained in evolving occupational landscapes.

    Measuring first-order legitimacy judgments: development of the corporate profession legitimacy scale · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the literature on measuring legitimacy. The existing scales have limitations, such as exclusively addressing organizational legitimacy and conflating first-and second-order legitimacy judgments.

    Measuring first-order legitimacy judgments: development of the corporate profession legitimacy scale · 2026 · DOI

  • Prior research suggests that purely rule-based or technically oriented approaches may be insufficient to prepare learners for ethically complex professional realities. There is a need for pedagogical approaches that engage learners cognitively, affectively, and reflectively.

    Learning ethical sensitivity through authentic legal experience: an educational psychology perspective on court hearing engagement · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could examine similar court-based or legal-institutional learning experiences across different cultural and disciplinary con- texts, incorporate baseline and delayed follow-up data, and use com- plementary methods to explore whether students’ reflective responses persist and translate into professional action.

    Learning ethical sensitivity through authentic legal experience: an educational psychology perspective on court hearing engagement · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of interdisciplinary and contextual perspectives in digital nudging research. The limited attention to ethical and contextual factors in digital nudging research. The dominance of quantitative methods and nudge theory in digital nudging research.

    Digital Nudging in Accounting and Ethical Decision-Making · 2026 · DOI

  • Digital nudging research is predominantly concentrated in developed countries. Contributions from developing countries are significantly limited. Current findings fail to adequately capture variations in cultural, institutional, and technological contexts.

    Digital Nudging in Accounting and Ethical Decision-Making · 2026 · DOI

Most-cited papers in Ethics in Business and Education

Most recent work

Find a gap in your own Ethics in Business and Education sub-topic

This page shows what the Ethics in Business and Education literature already flags as unresolved. To narrow it to your specific question, run the guided finder — it searches the gap library on demand and checks candidates against 250M+ OpenAlex works.

Open the Research Gap Finder →

Related topics in Decision Sciences

Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
1,430 open questions
scientometrics and bibliometrics research
1,033 open questions
Evaluation and Performance Assessment
730 open questions
Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
537 open questions
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
484 open questions
Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
313 open questions
Construction Project Management and Performance
301 open questions
Educational Assessment and Improvement
297 open questions
403 open questions have been extracted from the limitations and future-work passages of 4,101 Ethics in Business and Education papers in our library. Each one below links back to the study that raised it, so you can read the original claim in context.

Tools for your next paper

Gaps & Literature SearchFind open questions in any field — 120,000+ open gaps mined from our own library.Pre-CheckIs your paper ready? A Tier 1–5 acceptance probability in seconds.Journal FinderA ranked shortlist of target journals from a 17,500-venue index.Duplicate Publication CheckerCheck prior-publication & salami-slicing risk across 8 sources.Citation GeneratorFreeA DOI or title → APA, MLA, Vancouver, Chicago, BibTeX, RIS. No signup.Graphical Abstract MakerFreeTurn your findings into a colorblind-safe graphical abstract.

Compare the category — Honest roundups of the AI research tools, ours listed alongside the alternatives.

Command palette

Jump anywhere, run any action.