New Management Research Shows Management Research is Somewhat Flaky

visionYou know how they say don’t believe everything you read?

Per The Wall Street Journal’s recent piece on management research, this couldn’t be more true. Researchers from the University of Iowa and Longwood University analyzed academic articles on a variety of topics such as job performance.

They concluded papers were often significantly altered between the dissertation dates and publishing dates in peer-reviewed journals.

When they examined research studies at the dissertation level, 82 hypotheses were supported for every 100 that went unsupported.

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