Abstract
For this issue of JBE, Zyphur and Pierides (J Bus Ethics 143(1):1–16, 2017) have written a paper on a concept that they have labeled relational validity. The purpose of the paper and of their advocacy for the concept of relational validity is to improve the way that quantitative research (QR) is done by expanding our understanding of its ethics-laden aspects. I agree entirely with the authors that every decision regarding QR is an ethics-laden one and that our research as a whole would be improved by recognition of this fact. I disagree with the authors regarding some of the ways that this improvement might be brought about.
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Cortina, J.M. On the Whys and Hows of Quantitative Research. J Bus Ethics 167, 19–29 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04195-8
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