Table 2 Delphi’s rounds: questionnaire and general results

First round

Formed by three general questions:

1. Business Ethics keywords in Europe.

2. Business Ethics research questions in Europe.

3. The future emerging research lines in Business Ethics in Europe.

In this round, we grouped 22 emergent issues in Business Ethics in Europe.

Second round

The second round questions are:

1. Rank the importance of a list of emergent issues.

2. Add any keyword.

3. Mark 5 emerging issues that you think will have the greatest relevance over the next 10 years.

Once experts marked the more important emergent issues, we kept 17 of them.

Furthermore, the six most relevant emergent issues in Business Ethics are (depending on academic experts’ opinions):

1. Ethical competencies

2. Behavioral ethics

3. Digitalized culture, privacy, and ethics

4. Spirituality

5. Finance ethics

6. Risk management

Third round

Third round questions:

1. What do you think and how would you like to develop each of these emergent issues?

2. Business Ethics experts, institutions, or center in Europe.

3. Business Ethics teaching in Europe.

Finally, with the third round, we reached the results collected below. (See the “Results” section)