Peer Review and the Social Construction of Knowledge in the Management Discipline

摘要: Prior research on the peer-review process has almost exclusively focused its surface features--its impartiality, validity, and reliability. What received relatively less attention is influence of social component that shapes content discipline's published record and, in turn, determines scientific progress. As product processes, all knowledge-claims are socially constituted rather than products an absolute truth. Taking a sociology-of-knowledge perspective, I argue processes underlying warrant closer scrutiny. In doing so, contend there must be balancing inevitable author-editor-referee tensions operating throughout editorial so as to ensure clear authorial voice preserved. offer suggestions for assuring integrity enterprise, while respecting prerogatives ethics authorship.