Critical Dramaturgy Approach: Research Epistemology in the Field of Fraud Action Study

Abstract

This paper aims to provide an epistemology and method constructions in conducting research in the realm of disclosure of fraud actions and behaviors in financial and organizational management. In this paper, we tried to juxtapose the dramaturgy approach included in the humanistic interpretive paradigm with the critical paradigm. Various emerging perspectives lead to the unification of the two realms of the subjective paradigm. The realm of critical theory provides a condition that there is something wrong with reality today. Various fraud actions are indeed wrong and have a negative impact on people’s lives, thus the fraud realm can meet the criteria of critical theory. This Critical Dramaturgy uses the concept of critical dramaturgy by trying to solve and dismantle the theatrical layers of the actors in designing the fraud action in the process of financial and organizational management. Using critical Dramaturgy is an attempt to introduce how drama fraud is presented by developing the concept of the theory of spectacle theatrics, as a masterpiece in organizational studies, which leads to the field of sociology. This paper contributes to the arrangement of research epistemology and method related to critical dramaturgy in the realm of fraud behavior.