Methodology for case studies in business ethics

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff

Chapter 16 in Handbook of Case Study Research in the Social Sciences, 2024, pp 302-309 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The key idea of this chapter is that case studies are important for getting new and practical knowledge about dilemmas of business ethics in business, corporations, and other organizations. Case study analysis is based on a phenomenological and hermeneutic approach. Cases in organization are viewed as phenomena of meaning and ideas, and as texts that are open for interpretations. The case study methodology goes back to the classical and medieval philosophy of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. In modern social science research this methodology has been proposed as a generalizable scientific methodology for examining the practical life of organizations. Following the Harvard methodology of study of cases has been very useful for the study of business ethics. Many dilemmas of business ethics become possible to understand only when they are investigated based on hermeneutic readings of cases. In this sense, business ethics is a field where case study research has been modernized as a creative approach of finding the general in the particular.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Education; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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