The Ethical Impact of Business and Organisational Research: the Forgotten Methodological Issue?

Authors

  • Margaret Lindorff

Keywords:

Research ethics, justice, beneficence, respect for persons, informed consent

Abstract

In recent years, relatively little business or organisational research has focused on personal welfare detached from economic or organisational performance. Similarly, the mainstream management literature has tended to overlook the social effects of undertaking academic research, in particular those that relate to the researchers' ethical obligations to participants. This paper discusses some of the ethical issues associated with research on business and in organisations, using as its framework the ethical principles of justice, beneficence, and respect for persons.

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Published

1 Jul 2007

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2007)

Section

Articles

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