Reasoning in Organization Science - Companion

This is a companion recording to the Reasoning in Organization Science:    • Reasoning in Organization Science   Speakers: Prof Mikko Ketokivi (IE) and Prof Saku Mantere (McGill) When was the last time you paid attention to your biases or bounds on your rationality as you reasoned from your data to a theoretical conclusion There is a strange, if only implicit, premise in organizational research that while we readily acknowledge managers to exhibit bounded rationality and all kinds of behavioral biases, we assume that in creating knowledge about organizations, researchers are not subject to similar limitations. Instead, we assume that there is something inherently impartial and complete—even objective—about the way we reason. The purpose of this session is explode this myth and look at the complexity of how we reason and structure our arguments. We pay special attention to the cognitive and the paradigmatic foundations of reasoning and how they manifest themselves in our arguments. Participants would benefit from reading the following articles in preparation (listed in an order of descending importance). Readings: • Mantere, S, and Ketokivi, M. 2013. "Reasoning in organization science." Academy of Management Review 38 (1): 70-89. • Ketokivi, M, and Mantere, S. 2021. "What warrants our claims? A methodological evaluation of argument structure." Journal of Operations Management 67 (6): 755-776. • Ketokivi, M, and Mantere, S. 2010. "Two strategies for inductive reasoning in organizational research." Academy of Management Review 35 (2): 315-333. • Ketokivi, M, Mantere, S and Cornelissen, S. 2017. "Reasoning by analogy and the progress of theory." Academy of Management Review 42 (4): 637-658.