The objective of this article is to point the current development of an « ethical turn » in social sciences (including management), to show that this turn takes place in a context of juridictionalization of research - in continuity of governance model gradually established in the biomedical sciences-, and to lay the foundations for a critical discussion of this approach. We show that the import and application of this system are raising more problems than they provide solutions, for hermeneutic research in particular, widely used in management. We propose, finally, several alternatives.