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1、*Academyo/ManagementReview2013.Vol.38.No.1.70-89.http'7/dx.doi.crg/10.546yami.2011.0188REASONINGINORGANIZATIONSCIENCESAKUMANTEREHankenSchoolofEconomicsMIKKOKETOKIVIIEBusinessSchoolPrescriptionsregardingorganization-scientificmethodologyaretypicallyfoundedontheresearcher'sabilitytoapproachperfe
2、ctrationality.Inacriticalexaminationoftheuseofscientificreasoning(deduction,induction,abduction)inorganizationresearch,weseektoreplacethisunrealisticpremisewithanalternativethatincorporatesamorereasonableviewofthecognitivecapacityoftheresearcher.Tothisend.weconstructatypologyoidescriptive,pres
3、criptive,andnormativecriteriafortheeval-uationoforganization-scientificreasoningpractices.Thistypologyaddressesbothcognitivelimitsandthediversityofresearchapproachesinorganizationresearch.Wemakethegeneralcaseforincorporatingnotonlythecomputationalbutalsothecognitiveelementintotheformulationand
4、evaluationofscientificreasoningandarguments.Theobjectiveofscholarlyreasoningistojus-Thepaucityofthemethodologicalliteraturetifynewknowledgeinascientificfield.Theonreasoninginorganizationscienceinpartic-creationoforganization-scientificknowledge,ularisstriking,becausequestionsregardingthemorege
5、nerally,hasbeenapproachedfromnatureofhumanreasoninghavealwaysbeenatmanyangles,rangingfromepistemologicalcon-theheartoforganizationscholarship.Theliter-cerns(Moldoveanu&Baum,2002)andtheroleofatureonhowmanagersreasonandmakedeci-theoreticalparadigms(Pfeffer,1993)tosocialsionsisasdiverseasitismass
6、ive:volumesofconstructionofknowledge(Astley,1985)andsci-researchhavebeendevotedtorationalityandentificrhetoric(Ketokivi&Mantere,2010;Mc-theimplicationsofcognitivelimits,suchasCloskey,1998).Conspicuouslymissingfromtheboundedrationalityandbehavioralbiases(e.g.,extantliteratureisamethodological—a
7、sop-Bazerman,2002;Bell,Raiffa,&Tversky,1989;posedtorhetorical,psychological,orsocial—Eisenhardt&Zbaracki,1992;Kahneman,Slovic,accountofscientificreasoning.Themissing&Tversky,1982;March,1994;Simon,1997;pieceiscrucial,becausethegeneralund