From Bricks to an Edifice: Cultivating Strong Inference in Information Systems Research

Amrit Tiwana () and Stephen K. Kim ()
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Amrit Tiwana: University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30605
Stephen K. Kim: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010

Information Systems Research, 2019, vol. 30, issue 3, 1029-1036

Abstract: Disciplines that progress faster have a discipline-wide culture of strong inference. Notwithstanding our strong tradition of empirical cumulation, we argue how practicing strong inference can also cultivate greater theoretical cumulation in management information systems studies. We develop and illustrate two philosophy-of-science ideas—nomological rubberbanding and retroduction—to foster it.

Keywords: theoretical cumulation; models; retroduction; nomological rubberbanding; strong inference; unobserved heterogeneity; nomological string; theory construction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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