Business Ethics and Critical Consultant Jokes: New Research Methods to Study Ethical Transgressions
(2023)
Book
Bouwmeester, O. (2023). Business Ethics and Critical Consultant Jokes: New Research Methods to Study Ethical Transgressions. (1). Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10201-1
Professor Onno Bouwmeester's Outputs (4)
First up then out: Self-employment as a response to normative control practices in elite consultancies (2023)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O., & Slaats, M. (2024). First up then out: Self-employment as a response to normative control practices in elite consultancies. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 40(1), Article 101313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101313While normative control practices aim to raise employee motivation and commitment to professional standards in professional service firms, there is much debate on when and for whom such practices remain motivational. Based on interviews with 18 self-... Read More about First up then out: Self-employment as a response to normative control practices in elite consultancies.
Lowering Social Desirability Bias: Doing Jokes-Based Interviews (2023)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O. (2023). Lowering Social Desirability Bias: Doing Jokes-Based Interviews. Management consulting journal, 6(2), 78-90. https://doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2023-0010Jokes-based interviews can help to reduce social desirability bias of responses onsensitive topics, such as unethical business behaviour or other norm transgressions.The jokes-based interview method is relevant for academic researchers, as well as fo... Read More about Lowering Social Desirability Bias: Doing Jokes-Based Interviews.
What Jokes Can Tell: A Top 5 of Ethical Transgressions in Consulting (2023)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O. (2023). What Jokes Can Tell: A Top 5 of Ethical Transgressions in Consulting. Management consulting journal, 6(1), 37-48. https://doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2023-0005In studies on consultant ethics clients are usually portrayed as their potential victims. However, in newspapers a different story can be found, when journalists report cased where clients and consultants have been partners in crime. To better map th... Read More about What Jokes Can Tell: A Top 5 of Ethical Transgressions in Consulting.