TY - JOUR T1 - Business ethics, corporate ethics, Competitive Global Index (CGI) and Classification of countries based on Ethical features TT - شاخص رقابت‌پذیری جهانی (GCI) و طبقه‌بندی کشورها براساس معیارهای اخلاقی JF - khu-jde JO - khu-jde VL - 3 IS - 9 UR - http://jde.khu.ac.ir/article-1-70-en.html Y1 - 2019 SP - 103 EP - 138 KW - Business Ethics KW - corporate ethics KW - Social ethics KW - Ethics and Economics KW - Ethical Ranking N2 - Context: Among the various aspects of human problems, morality and ethics have a special position. From the beginning, economic review have emphasized the role of ethics on explaining and setting ­up economic theory. According to the association,purpose of research is 144 country categorized based on Global Competitiveness Index. Method: In this research based on the extracted feature from competitive global index, classification countries are considered in 144 countries while ethical features is divided in 5 subsets which is defined Individual , small groups , Business ,and king ethics and all of the subsets. This study is executed on data mining which is K means algorithm. Finding: rank of Iran is second in personal and Social network ethics ,and is fourth in Corporate and small group and rulers ethics and Morality . rank of Developed countries e.g. America and Britain is first in Morality ,and Malaysia which is Islamic country is first in all categorize except personal ethic. Results: The results show that the developed countries from the developing world have better grades.result of this research is categrized countries based on ethics nevertheless such studies can help explain to growth and economic development causes. M3 10.52547/jde.3.9.103 ER -