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How To Be a ‘Wise’ Researcher: Learning from the Aristotelian Approach to Practical Wisdom

Authors: Sandrine Frémeaux, Thibaut Bardon, Clara Letierce

Published in: Journal of Business Ethics | Issue 4/2021

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How can you act ethically in a publication system that attempts to regulate research activity in a way that you might find, in many respects, to be unethical? In this article, we address this question by drawing on the Aristotelian perspective of practical wisdom. Drawing on thirty semi-structured interviews with academics working in French business schools, we outline different means through which they act ‘wisely’ by deliberating and focusing on what is within their power and in line with their best judgment. In particular, we show how some of them succeed in performing virtuous actions both within the publication system and beyond.

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Title: How To Be a ‘Wise’ Researcher: Learning from the Aristotelian Approach to Practical Wisdom
Authors: Sandrine Frémeaux
Thibaut Bardon
Clara Letierce
Publication date: 20-01-2020
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Journal of Business Ethics / Issue 4/2021
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04434-3

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