Researcher Interaction Biases and Business Ethics Research: Respondent Reactions to Researcher Characteristics

Abstract

interviewer bias, methods bias, research methods, insurance fraud,

Perceived Ethicality of Insurance Claim Fraud: Do Higher Deductibles Lead to Lower Ethical Standards?

“…Specifically, the identity of the research team was concealed and indications of race, ethnicity, etc. in the written scenario were avoided in efforts to not introduce researcher interaction biases (Miyazaki and Taylor, 2007). Moreover, the random assignment of the experimental manipulation to the respondents suggests that any biases (e.g., social desirability bias) would approximately be equally distributed across experimental conditions, and thus would be unlikely to affect the experimental results (Churchill, 1991).…”

Use of focus groups in business ethics research: potential, problems and paths to progress

“…We would suggest that there should be a greater degree of engagement with the underlying philosophy as well as the methodological debates around the use of qualitative research. Thus, for example, Miyazaki & Taylor () contend that the generation of trust that comes with greater interaction might, counter‐intuitively for a positivist, mitigate the effect of researcher interaction biases. There is a rich methodological literature on qualitative research, reference to which is conspicuous by its absence in reports of the use of focus groups in business ethics research.…”

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“…This geographic proximity can be a necessity to gain reasonable access to participants in qualitative research (Fjellström & Guttormsen, 2016). A researcher should not show bias toward the topic of study, geographic location, or study participants (Barnham, 2015;Krefting, 1991;Miyazaki & Taylor, 2008). Additionally, qualitative researchers have proposed bracketing is used to prevent bias from entering interviews (Sorsa, Kiikkala, & Astedt-Kurki, 2015).…”