| Titre | From the social responsibility of the researcher to the impossibility of searching? The impact of sensitive issues | |
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| Auteur | Emilie Hennequin, Bérangère Condomines | |
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Revue | Management & sciences sociales |
| Numéro | no 38, 2024/3 Development of Social Responsibility in French Business Schools | |
| Page | 25-42 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Over the past decade or so, management sciences have been taking on subjects that have been described as sensitive. While they have a strong societal resonance, they are often associated with the potential for threats to the various research stakeholders. While threats to respondents have been discussed at length in the literature, threats to researchers are still underestimated, as they are often defined in terms of their professional responsibility, including by the researchers themselves, in terms of their political role. This conception, based on one of the researcher's forms of commitment, has the consequence of sidestepping some of the threats associated with other forms of commitment, such as the interest in studying sensitive subjects. For this reason, this article focuses on the behavioral dimension, questioning the extent to which the researcher's social responsibility is impacted by the fact of studying a sensitive subject and by the multiple constraints to which he is subjected to protect participants and himself. We conclude that by studying the sensitive, the researcher's responsibility is reinforced at individual, institutional and societal levels, constraining his freedom. Confronted with their own vulnerabilities, a need for objectivity and a framework formalizing ethical expectations, they may even feel unable to study sensitive subjects. While these effects are undoubtedly restrictive, they reinforce the need to question the ethics and aims of research, underlining the importance of a strong reflexivity for any researcher of sensitive subjects, particularly in management, where this reflexivity is still relatively little materialized in publications. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | https://shs.cairn.info/revue-management-et-sciences-sociales-2024-3-page-25?lang=en (accès réservé) |
