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Deals with the practical question of how jokes and cartoons can be used in research methods
Is unique in covering new methodologies for doing research in business ethics
Provides an overview of the most common ethical transgressions in management consulting
This book is open access
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This open access book offers four ways to enrich traditional research methods in business ethics. By looking at critical jokes and cartoons on management consultants, their business practice and their clients’ demands, many ethical transgressions in business get addressed. By illustrating and criticizing such transgression, jokes can serve as an example in a theoretical argument, as a prompt to reflect on in an open interview, as a statement to assess in an enquiry or as basis for qualitative content analysis. By adding jokes to the conversation on ethical transgressions in business much depth and honesty can be added, resulting in better research data. Jokes can help to surpass social desirability bias included in answers given in traditional interview settings or enquiries. This book is of interest to consultants, researchers, educators and students in business ethics and management. The book showcases what kind of practical and ethical wisdom is embedded in business jokes and how this knowledge can be made productive in the context of business ethics.
Keywords
- Business Ethics
- Professional Ethics
- Research Methods
- Management Consulting
- Critical Jokes
- Open Access
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Management and Organization, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Onno Bouwmeester
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Business Ethics and Critical Consultant Jokes
Book Subtitle: New Research Methods to Study Ethical Transgressions
Authors: Onno Bouwmeester
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10201-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2023
License: CC BY
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10200-4Published: 01 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-10201-1Published: 31 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2211-8101
Series E-ISSN: 2211-811X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 101
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business Ethics, Business Consulting, Research Skills, Popular Culture