Research Ethics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Graduate Business Students' Attitudes and Beliefs

Autor/inn/en	Grant, Chris; Gazdula, Joe
Titel	Research Ethics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Graduate Business Students' Attitudes and Beliefs
Quelle	In: Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 14 (2020) 4, S.260-273 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1935-3308
Schlagwörter	Ethics; Moral Values; Student Attitudes; Graduate Students; Business Administration Education; Partnerships in Education; Social Influences; Cultural Context; Religious Factors; Rural Urban Differences; Professionalism; Oral Tradition; Research Projects; Masters Theses; Foreign Countries; Malawi; Zambia; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethik; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Schülerverhalten; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Sozialer Einfluss; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Professionalität; Oral history; Mündliche Überlieferung; Forschungsvorhaben; Ausland; Sambia
Abstract	In the present article, we explore beliefs and attitudes towards research ethics among graduate students in the two south-central African countries of Zambia and Malawi. The participants were 11 mid-career professionals studying graduate business programs delivered in-country in partnership with a British university. We conducted semi-structured, in-depth interviews in order to ascertain these graduate students' views regarding ethics and the influences that contribute to their ethical perspective, in particular the relationship between their beliefs about ethics and the processes and procedures taught in their ethics course. Participants indicated several factors that contributed to their beliefs and attitudes of research ethics including close social groups, traditional historical ethics reinforced through storytelling, their religion, their urban versus rural location, and their beliefs about professionalism. We argue that encompassing these factors in the ethical frameworks of Western universities will give a more substantial foundation for the research undertaken in the region. (As Provided).
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