Mapping the Research Landscape of Ethical Climate: A Bibliometric Perspective

¹ Postgraduate School, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia
² Department of Digital Business, Universitas Muhammadiyah Karanganyar, Indonesia
³ Department of Management, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia

^* Corresponding author: azmi.muhammad@umy.ac.id

Abstract

Ethical climate plays a crucial role in shaping organizational behavior, influ-encing employee commitment, leadership effectiveness, and overall ethical decision-making. This study uses bibliometric analysis to map the research landscape on ethical climate with data retrieved from Scopus. Through key-word co-occurrence, citation, and co-citation analysis using VOSviewer and Biblioshiny (RStudio) software, this study identified three main clusters in this field: (1) ethical climate, ethical leadership, and organizational commit-ment, (2) morality, moral distress, health worker attitudes, and psychological stress (3) organizational culture, ethics, and ethics. The overlay visualization shows the evolution of research focus from organizational culture and busi-ness ethics towards ethical leadership, moral distress, and whistleblowing. These results confirm the need for further research to fill the gap to improve understanding of the dynamics of ethical climate across industries. This study contributes to ethical climate literature by offering a comprehensive bibliometric perspective as well as providing insights into research trends, theory development, and future research directions.