From significant difference to significant sameness: Proposing a paradigm shift in business research
作者： Raymond Hubbard , R. Murray Lindsay
DOI: 10.1016/J.JBUSRES.2012.05.002
关键词: Critical realism (philosophy of the social sciences) 、 Development theory 、 Sociology 、 Value (ethics) 、 Argument 、 Abductive reasoning 、 Paradigm shift 、 Social psychology 、 Epistemology 、 Orthodoxy 、 Significant difference
摘要: Abstract Complaints about the value of academic business research in addressing real world issues are common. A change paradigms—from significant difference to sameness—is necessary improve this situation. The present paper challenges orthodoxy as representing poor scientific practice and advocates an entirely different paradigm based on a sophisticated replication tradition following meta-methodology critical realism. comprehensive analysis across philosophical, methodological, statistical literatures develops argument.
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