Engaged and Responsible Scholarship: Why Qualitative Researchers Should Not Embrace GenAI

2025/11/03 by Duc Cuong Nguyen, David T. Nguyen, Catherine Welch · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Computational and Text Analysis Methods #Critical Realism in Sociology #Generative grammar #Mediation #Qualitative Research Methods and Applications #Qualitative research #Raising (metalworking) #Research ethics #Responsible Research and Innovation

paper · doi:10.1177/00076503251386539

published in Business & Society 65(7), 1787-1792 (SAGE Publishing)

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Abstract

We argue that placing a generative artificial intelligence model between qualitative researchers and their subjects of inquiry fundamentally displaces and distorts the conditions under which meaningful and epistemologically sound knowledge can emerge. We further argue that such mediation raises ethical implications that are incompatible with the principles of responsible research that underpin business and society scholarship.

Citations

• Resisting the Algorithmic Management of Science: Craft and Community After Generative AI

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