Fieldwork in the Oligopoly
Protecting the Corporate Subject
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20669409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D B Cornfield (0000-0002-2959-7264, Vanderbilt University), Daniel Cornfield, Teresa A Sullivan (The University of Texas at Austin), Teresa Sullivan |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 258-263 |
| Publication date | 1983-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.42.3.e830005420u20746 |
| OpenAlex | W2015485307 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
Social scientists have discussed at length the protection of individual subjects but have paid little attention to collective subjects (for example, see Sjoberg 1967; Wax 1971; Diener and Crandall 1978). However, if researchers are to study the corporation and the corporate elite (Useem 1979), and if they are to bring the firm back into the mainstream of organizational research (Baron and Bielby 1980), they must also consider the protection of corporate research subjects. The need to protect collective subjects derives from the obligation to protect individual informants, but it also becomes a pragmatic issue in gaining access to study a large corporation. The common resort to pseudonyms is problematic, for the collective subject may be so distinctive that it can be identified in the first or subsequent studies (Vidich and Bensman 1958/59:4; Hicks 1977). The protection question applies specifically to qualitative fieldwork data, because methods for avoiding disclosure with quantitative data are already
Business · Criminology · Economics · Law and economics · Market economy · Oligopoly · Political science · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · Management and Organizational Studies · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
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Power and the Structure of Society
Men and women of the corporation
Strategy and Structure
Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy
The Structure of American Industry
Ethical Principles in Anthropological Research
Working for Capitalism
Freedom and Responsibility in Research” Comments
Stratification in a Dual Economy
Freedom and Responsibility in Research
Bringing the Firms Back in
On Fieldworkers and Those Exposed to Fieldwork
Informant Anonymity and Scientific Accuracy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 1985 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |