Advocacy as a Scientific Strategy: The Mitroff Myth

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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.

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1980-10-01
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Postprint version. Published in Academy of Management Review, Volume 5, Issue 4, October 1980, pages 509-511. Publisher URL: http://www.aom.pace.edu/amr/
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