Business Ethics

Justification Report

January 22, 2012

Mrs. Mary Tate

Manager of GCS

1024 Iron Point Road,

Folsom, CA 95630

Dear Mrs. Mary,

This justification report is on the Addition of New Articles to our Current Collection

Due to the lack of diversity of articles, the addition of new articles to the current collection would be essential. As a result, articles being out dated and a good number of them are used as case studies. I have conducted three publications, such as – Journal of International Business, Journal of Taxation and Journal of Business Ethics. All of three publications are very much interesting to me. After conducting my research on three publications, I chose the Journal of Business Ethics as my favorites out of the three.

The Journal of Business Ethics provides publications on ethical issues related to business, and analyses of systems of production, consumption, marketing, economic accounting, public relations, and organization behavior. I chose it because, from 1982 till present (2011) its frequency is 29 and cost is very reliable for our company. Also, in one of its issues in 2011 by Shum and Yam, they suggest a new model that is rapidly growing called Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that can fulfill social and economic responsibility simultaneously. It continues by explaining how managers that adopt CSR model will attain profits in their business enterprise. Implementing the use of CSR to our company would help our company rapidly grow and achieve good social ratings when appropriate legal and ethical controls are in place (Shum and Yam, 2011). Furthermore, the style of writing is impeccable; it shows pyramids, statistical data and diagrams explaining the CSR model and interprets the results of each data in a clear and concise way.

Here is a short idea about the journal – Tokenistic short-term economic success is not good indicia of long-term success. Sustainable business success requires sustained existence in a corporation’s...