Campbell, David and Cowton, Christopher J. (2015) Method issues in business ethics research: finding credible answers to questions that matter. Business Ethics: A European Review, 24 (S1). S3-S10. ISSN 1467-8608
Abstract

This article is an essay based on many years of reviewing journal submissions and discussions with business ethics scholars on a range of themes regarding methods. To some extent, it contains condensed thoughts from two experienced scholars in the field, which we hope will be useful, especially to emerging scholars who, to some extent, may be still wrestling with some of the issues raised in the article.

The validity and reliability of research methods in business ethics research is discussed in terms of legitimate methods to employ in the discipline, the epistemic challenges in the discipline, the debate between qualitative and quantitative methods, and some considered comments on ‘researching well’ in this discipline. Within each theme, we attempt to convey our distilled thoughts in the hope that methods employed in future studies will avoid some of the failures we have observed in the past.

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