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Christian Hopp1, Gary A Hoover2.
Abstract
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.Keywords: Data fabrication; Data misrepresentation; Ethics; Scientific misconduct
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Year: 2019 PMID: 30604353 DOI: 10.1007/s11948-018-0079-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Sci Eng Ethics ISSN: 1353-3452 Impact factor: 3.525