@inbook{e4a8dd592cbe4c7fa88bb8f08d1b6048,
title = "Measurement and statistics in 'Organization Science': Philosophical, sociological and historical perspectives",
abstract = "Measurement and statistical practices are ubiquitous across many areas of organization research. For example, in 2012 the Academy of Management Journal had an average of 89 p-values 1 in each article (Gigerenzer and Marewski, 2015). Given this prevalence, it is unfortunate that measurement and statistics are usually deployed in ways that ignore their social and material character, instead directing attention to abstract concepts like {\textquoteleft}validity{\textquoteright}, {\textquoteleft}truth{\textquoteright}, and {\textquoteleft}objectivity{\textquoteright}. By focusing on such concepts, researchers remain wedded to unexamined foundational assumptions with origins in now-antiquated seventeenth century philosophy (see Shapin, 1994, 1996, 2010; Williams, 2005). It is, therefore, unsurprising that existing approaches to measurement and statistics cause problems in contemporary contexts wherein these foundations are difficult to maintain.",
keywords = "Organization science, Organization Studies, Measurement, Statistics, Philosophy, Pragmatism",
author = "Michael Zyphur and Dean Pierides and Jon Roffe",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.4324/9780203795248.ch43",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780415702867",
series = "Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "474--482",
editor = "Raza Mir and Hugh Willmott and Michelle Greenwood",
booktitle = "The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies",
address = "United Kingdom",
}