In 2014, Birtch et al published a paper that contained unnecessary negative cultural/racial stereotyping in a vignette presented in the paper’s introduction. Given the potentially harmful consequences of negative stereotyping, and the relatively frequent use of vignettes in the business ethics literature, this prompted us to wonder whether this was an isolated instance or a more widespread occurrence. To investigate this question we conducted a search of the scholarly literature for papers containing the string ‘vignette’ or ‘scenario’, and ‘business ethics’ using the EBSCOhost databases to which our institution subscribes. This search yielded a collection of 154 papers where vignettes were actually presented. Of these, approximately 18% contained negative cultural or racial stereotyping while 38% contained some form of negative gender stereotyping. In our view, these are uncomfortably high frequencies, so uncomfortably high in fact that they prompt us to conclude with a plea to authors, editors and reviewers within the business ethics academic literature to be on guard against this practice.

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考虑以下情况：“一位政治上有联系的西欧白人商人为您的公司在该国的销售铺平了道路……要收费”。

2014年，Birtch等人在论文的导言中发表的一篇小插图中发表了一篇包含不必要的负面文化/种族刻板印象的论文。考虑到负面刻板印象的潜在有害后果，以及在商业道德文献中使用小插图的相对频繁，这促使我们想知道这是孤立的情况还是更为普遍的情况。为了调查这个问题，我们使用了我们机构订阅的EBSCOhost数据库，在学术文献中搜索了包含字符串“ vignette”或“ scenario”以及“商业道德”的论文。该搜索产生了154篇论文的集合，其中实际呈现了小插图。这些，大约18％的人具有负面的文化或种族陈规定型观念，而38％的人具有某种负面的性别陈规定型观念。在我们看来，这些频率令人不快，实际上却如此之高，以至于它们促使我们以商业道德学术文献中的作者，编辑和审稿人为结尾，以防备这种做法。