ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR STREAMING BUSINESS PUBLICATIONS

This exploratory ethics study of a publication and presentation practice herein defined as 'streaming'' investigates the attitudes of deans of schools of business and business professors regarding such behavior. Streaming publications is the practice of presenting or publishing an article at one outlet and then taking the same article with perhaps minor revisions and presenting or publishing it at another publication outlet. The results of die survey suggest that the most important ethical behavior regarding streaming practices is disclosure. If authors fully disclose the intellectual history of a paper's developmental process, allegations of possible professional misconduct will be minimized if not eliminated.