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SIMCHI-LEVI: Behavioral Science’s Credibility Is At Risk. Replication Studies Can Help

NOTE: This blog is a repost of one originally published at the Informs blogsite ( click here). We thank David Simchi-Levi for permission to repost. Several scientific disciplines have been conducting replication initiatives to investigate the reliability of published research results. Replication studies are particularly important in social sciences for creating and advancing the state of knowledge.

BYINGTON & FELPS: On Resolving the Social Dilemmas that Lead to Non-Credible Science

In our forthcoming article “Solutions to the credibility crisis in Management science” (full text available here), we suggest that “social dilemmas” in the production of Management science put scholars and journal gatekeepers in a difficult position – pitting self-interest against the production of credible scientific claims. We argue that recognizing that the credibility crisis in Management science is at least partly a consequence of social dilemmas – and treating it as such – are foundational steps that can help move the field toward adopting the variety of credibility enhancing practices that scientists have been advocating for decades (e.

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