Advocacy as a Scientific Strategy: The Mitroff Myth

Armstrong, J. Scott

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Advocacy as a Scientific Strategy: The Mitroff Myth

Academy of Management Review, Vol. 5, pp. 509-511, 1980

4 Pages Posted: 8 Mar 2005 Last revised: 31 Dec 2011

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J. Scott Armstrong

University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department

Abstract

A committee created a fictitious author, Ian Mitroff, who published a paper that violated scientific guidelines. The Mitroff paper recommended an advocacy strategy for scientific research; it said that scientists should vigorously defend their initial hypothesis. I use the advocacy strategy to scientifically prove that Mitroff does not exist.

Keywords: Management science, scientific strategy, Ian Mitroff, research

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Armstrong, J. Scott, Advocacy as a Scientific Strategy: The Mitroff Myth. Academy of Management Review, Vol. 5, pp. 509-511, 1980, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=676105