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https://doi.org/10.20901/pm.63.3.02
Ethical Formalism in the Croatian Academic Community: An Empirical Study of Institutional Ethics
Marija Brajdić Vuković
; Institut za društvena istraživanja u Zagrebu
Magda Profaca
; Institut za društvena istraživanja u Zagrebu
Pavel Gregorić
; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb
Sažetak
This article examines the relationship between formal ethics infrastructure and everyday organizational practices in the Croatian academic community. Building on the understanding of professional ethics as an institutional property of the academic community, it introduces the concept of ethical formalism to describe an institutional configuration in which ethical norms are formally established but weakly integrated into everyday organizational practices and collective reflection. The analysis draws on two surveys conducted in 2024 among researchers at Croatian universities and public research institutes (combined sample N = 2.011; professional ethics module N = 1.109). It examines the visibility and functioning of ethics bodies, perceptions of ethical responsibility, and the distribution of everyday and serious ethical breaches, including challenges related to generative artificial intelligence. The findings reveal limited familiarity with ethics bodies, low confidence in their practical role, and a strong individualization of ethical responsibility. Rather than indicating an absence of ethics, they suggest that ethics remains procedurally institutionalized but weakly embedded in everyday academic practice.
Ključne riječi
Ethical Formalism; Institutional Ethics; Academic Ethics; Research Integrity; Institutional Ethics Bodies
Hrčak ID:
352500
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Datum izdavanja:
27.10.2026.
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