You direct the executive master's and doctoral programmes. The whole model rests on one idea: candidates research a live problem inside their own organisation, and that is why the theses are worth something off campus.
One candidate, the chief operating officer of a logistics group, wants to write about the restructuring he is himself executing. His access to internal data is conditional, in writing, on the conclusions not compromising the board.
You decide how to keep the inquiry honest when the person granting access to the data has a stake in the answer.
The decision
How do you protect the inquiry without destroying the model?
A — Ban theses on the candidate's own organisation
B — Ethics committee and case-by-case conflict declaration
C — Pre-register the question and the disconfirming evidence before access is negotiated
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