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- Title
Data Dredging or Legitimate Research Method? Historiography and Its Potential for Management Research.
- Authors
Goodman, Robert S.; Kruger, Evonne Jonas
- Abstract
Historiography's potential as a management research technique has not been extensively evaluated. This article describes historiography, evaluates criticism directed toward it, and assesses its usefulness for management research. It asserts that historiography can make significant contributions to variable selection and evaluation, theory building, and hypothesis generation.
- Subjects
HISTORIOGRAPHY; MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT science; BUSINESS history; HISTORICAL research methods; OPERATIONS research; STRATEGIC planning; INDUSTRIAL management research; DATA analysis; MULTIVARIATE analysis
- Publication
Academy of Management Review, 1988, Vol 13, Issue 2, p315
- ISSN
0363-7425
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/AMR.1988.4306901