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| Author: | Brand, V. |
| Title: | Empirical business ethics research and paradigm analysis |
| Journal: | Journal of Business Ethics
2009 : JUN I, VOL. 86:4, p. 429-449 |
| Index terms: | business ethics cross-cultural studies research literature periodicals undergraduates students attitudes methodology |
| Freeterms: | epistemology ontology |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | In the theoretical business ethics (henceforth as: b-e.) literature, any consideration of paradigm issues is rare. Merely occasional references to relevant issues have been made in the empirical journal literature. This is very much the case in the growing fields of cross-cultural b-e. and undergraduate student attitudes. This article uses examples from these fields. No typology of the major paradigms available for, or relied on in, b-e. has been done. This article addresses that gap, contributing a synthesis of three models of paradigms and a tabulated comparison of ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions in the context of empirical b-e. research. In addition, the likely positivist paradigm assumptions are suggested underlying the vast majority of empirical b-e. research published in academic journals. |
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