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oapen-20.500.12657-593762022-11-19T03:42:10Z Business Ethics and Critical Consultant Jokes Bouwmeester, Onno Business Ethics Professional Ethics Research Methods Management Consulting Critical Jokes bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJG Business ethics & social responsibility bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJL Consultancy & grants for businesses bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNZ Study & learning skills: general bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies::JFCA Popular culture 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. 2022-11-18T14:20:46Z 2022-11-18T14:20:46Z 2023 book ONIX_20221118_9783031102011_46 9783031102011 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59376 eng SpringerBriefs in Ethics application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-10201-1.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-10201-1 Springer Nature Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-031-10201-1 10.1007/978-3-031-10201-1 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 3f87c5ea-f890-4f19-b131-71a5cefa75b4 9783031102011 Springer International Publishing 101 Cham [...] Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam VU University Amsterdam open access
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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.
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