Technology Entrepreneurship, RWTH Aachen University, TIME Research Area, 52012, Aachen, Germany.
Department of Economics, University of Oklahoma, 308 Cate Center Drive, Norman, OK, 73072, USA.
Sci Eng Ethics. 2019 Oct;25(5):1549-1588. doi: 10.1007/s11948-018-0079-4. Epub 2019 Jan 2.
This research presents the results of a survey regarding scientific misconduct and questionable research practices elicited from a sample of 1215 management researchers. We find that misconduct (research that was either fabricated or falsified) is not encountered often by reviewers nor editors. Yet, there is a strong prevalence of misrepresentations (method inadequacy, omission or withholding of contradictory results, dropping of unsupported hypotheses). When it comes to potential methodological improvements, those that are skeptical about the empirical body of work being published see merit in replication studies. Yet, a sizeable majority of editors and authors eschew open data policies, which points to hidden costs and limited incentives for data sharing in management research.
本研究呈现了一项调查结果,该调查针对 1215 名管理研究人员样本,调查了科学不端行为和有问题的研究实践。我们发现,评审员和编辑很少遇到不端行为(即伪造或篡改的研究)。然而,存在大量的不当表述(方法不充分、遗漏或隐瞒相反结果、放弃无支持假设)。当涉及到潜在的方法改进时,那些对已发表的实证工作持怀疑态度的人认为复制研究有价值。然而,绝大多数编辑和作者回避开放数据政策,这表明管理研究中数据共享存在隐藏成本和有限激励。