Journal Articles Regarding Business Ethics

SOSC 2340A FW2022-3 Assignment # 2: Research exercise

Weight: 25 %

Due:

Length 1500-2000 word 

This assignment consists of two related steps.

Step One:

 Find two (2) scholarly journal articles published in 2022 on one of the topics covered in this course. You may define the topic as narrowly as you wish, but it should have some connection with the themes of the course. Because the course is interdisciplinary, Google Scholar is a useful tool for finding articles. You may be able to access the articles via the public internet, but often they will be available only in paywalled journals. In that case, you will have to access the articles through the York University library website.

Both articles should be published in academic peer-reviewed journals. If you are unsure about whether a publication qualifies, please consult your tutorial leader. The papers you choose may include either analytic, argumentative, theoretical papers or ones reporting original empirical research, but you should not include papers that are purely literature reviews.

 For each of the two articles, answer the following questions 

1. How would you cite the article, both in the body of a paper and in the bibliography/references section, using the citation/reference style used in that article itself. In other words, find a citation to a specific page number in the article, and indicate the rule it follows for how to cite it—e.g. (author surname, year: page #). What rules does it follow for bibliographic entries (“References”) at the end? Answer this by providing the full citation for the article using the article’s own bibliographic citation style. It is not necessary for you to identify or name the style. (2 points 

2. What is the general topic or area of the article? (summary) (2 points)

3. What kind of article is it—what method or methods does the study use (e.g., theoretical/analytic, historical/case study, quantititative empirical study, qualitative empirical study, etc.)? If it is an empirical study, what sources of data does it use? (5 points)

4. What is the specific question the study aims to answer, hypothesis it seeks to test, or thesis it seeks to defend? What is the significance of this question in terms of previous empirical and theoretical literature (i.e., why does the question matter)? (5 points)

5. What does the study find, both in terms of the specific question  and its broader implications? [We don’t expect you to try to follow, much less describe, the technicalities of, say, statistical analyses used in a quantitative study, or all the theoretical references. We do expect you to make an effort to figure out the general points, which you will not succeed in doing just by picking out bits and pieces you think you understand out of context, or copying things you don’t understand.] (6 points)

20 points total per article; 40 points altogether for Step One 

Step Two

Go back to the articles you looked at in Step One. For each, find a journal article that is referred to in that article (you may, if necessary, use two articles cited in one of the Step One articles). If your first articles have a literature review section (most will), that is a good place to look. If possible, choose an article that is discussed (however briefly) rather than one that is cited in passing. Make sure that each of these cited sources is a journal article, not a book, popular magazine article, newspaper item, government document etc.

You should now have 2 articles, each cited in one of the Step One articles. Access and read the two articles.

For each Step Two article, answer questions 1 through 5 (above) as per Step One. Each answer is worth the same number of points as in Stage One. In addition, answer the following:

6. How is the cited article related to the article that cites it? Why does the author of the later article refer to it? (For information? For analysis? For theoretical perspective?) Does the author of the later article agree or disagree with the conclusions of the previous article? What more do you know about the topic, and in what way do you better understand the Step One (later) article, from having read the Step Two (earlier) article? (10 points)

30 points total per article; 60 points altogether for Step Two. Step One (40 points) + Two (60 points) = 100 points.

General Instructions

Each component will be graded holistically based on relevance to the question, demonstrated comprehension, and clear, skillful expression. Some or all of the possible points for an article may be withheld if the article is not meet the specifications set out in these instructions.

Please upload the paper to Turnitin by midnight on the evening of February 13. Make sure you upload the correct file; you are responsible if the file you have uploaded violates academic honesty rules.