Lakatos revisited: Innovation and ‘Novel facts’ as a foundational logic for the social sciences in an era of ‘Post-truth’ and pseudoscience

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dc.article.start-page1en_ZA
dc.citation.doi10.1080/23311975.2019.1672489en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorCallaghan, Chris William
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-24T11:36:08Z
dc.date.available2020-07-24T11:36:08Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-01
dc.description.abstractIn what seems to be a “post-truth” era this paper argues that management theory development is necessary to provide insights into how to manage the academic research, or discovery system, itself, as it no longer seems clear that its explicit purpose, as per Lakatos’s argument, is the development of theory that predicts “novel facts.” This logic questions the extent to which the social science research system is inherently innovative. To explore these issues, the topic of pseudoscience is used as a heuristic, in order to derive an understanding of how the purpose of the discovery system seems to be understood by different stakeholders. In doing so, this paper explores how researchers may need to manage their research fields to negotiate contested academic terrain and develop what Lakatos refers to as progressive research programmes. It is argued that hypervigilance and overly conservative gatekeeping in response to threats of pseudoscience can run deep in the structure of academic engagement, contributing to a paradigm of constrained innovation. Drawing from post-normal science theory, a conceptual framework is identified for how these problems might be addressed by a focus on the development of scalability in the research process itself, without compromising rigor.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianTT2020en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Law and Management
dc.identifier.citationChris William Callaghan | (2019) Lakatos revisited: Innovation and ‘Novel facts’ as a foundational logic for the social sciences in an era of ‘Post-truth’ and pseudoscience, Cogent Business & Management, 6:1, 1672489en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCallaghan, CW & Lorenzo Ardito, L (Reviewing editor). 2019. Lakatos revisited: Innovation and ‘Novel facts’ as a foundational logic for the social sciences in an era of ‘Post-truth’ and pseudoscience, Cogent Business & Management, 6:1, DOI: 10.1080/23311975.2019.1672489
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/29266
dc.journal.issue1en_ZA
dc.journal.linkhttps://doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2019.1672489en_ZA
dc.journal.titleCogent Business and Managementen_ZA
dc.journal.volume6en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherCogent OAen_ZA
dc.rights© 2019 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.en_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Economics and Financeen_ZA
dc.subjectManagement theory developmenten_ZA
dc.subjectinnovation managementen_ZA
dc.subjectknowledge managementen_ZA
dc.subjectinnovativenessen_ZA
dc.subjectpseudoscienceen_ZA
dc.subjectLakatosen_ZA
dc.titleLakatos revisited: Innovation and ‘Novel facts’ as a foundational logic for the social sciences in an era of ‘Post-truth’ and pseudoscienceen_ZA
dc.title.alternativeCogent Business and Managementen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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