Business communication ethics research has progressed in recent years. A com
munity of interested scholars, a growing stream of scholarly papers, and links to
ethics research in related fields, all bode well for the future. Further improvement
will require, however, that scholars identify central issues, use a variety of
research methods, address normative (and perhaps meta-ethical) issues, make full
use of the relevant literatures, and support colleagues who choose business
communication ethics as a major research focus.
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