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This paper 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 still be wrestling with some of the issues raised in the paper. 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.
Author(s): Campbell D; Cowton CJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Business Ethics: A European Review
Year: 2015
Volume: 24
Issue: S1
Pages: S3-S10
Print publication date: 01/07/2015
Online publication date: 27/07/2015
ISSN (print): 0962-8770
ISSN (electronic): 1467-8608
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/beer.12093
DOI: 10.1111/beer.12093
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