Business Ethics and Critical Consultant Jokes

New Research Methods to Study Ethical Transgressions

Onno Bouwmeester

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9783031102004
• eBook ISBN: 9783031102011
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Ethics
• Index: Business

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 howthis knowledge can be made productive in the context of business ethics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction of Jokes-Based Research Methods
• 2. Jokes That Illustrate Unethical Business Behaviour
• 3. Critical Jokes and Moral Reflection in Interviews
• 4. Jokes-Based Survey Questions on Expert Virtues
• 5. Content Analysis of Critical Business Jokes
• 6. Concluding Reflections on Jokes-Based Research Methods