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Victor Valeriu PATRICIU Angerer DIETER and Irina DUMITRACHE Elena JUGANARU ()
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Victor Valeriu PATRICIU Angerer DIETER: Academia Tehnica Militara
Irina DUMITRACHE Elena JUGANARU: Universitatea Titu Maiorescu

No 2011/404, Papers from Osterreichish-Rumanischer Akademischer Verein

Abstract: Reichenbach (1938) distinguishes between ―JUSTIFICATION LOGIC‖ and ―DISCOVERY LOGIC.‖ Weick (1989) sees theorizing as ―disciplined imagination.‖ Weick appropriately captures the essence of theory discovery/creation as ―imagination.‖ Indeed, after centuries of scientific development, no one has identified any systematic ―logic‖ to the discovery of correct theory. But ―justification‖ seems more appropriate than his ―disciplined.‖ Discipline might get the player to the piano practicing eight hours a day but the idea is to play the right notes. Justification logic is not about discipline and hard work. It is about developing more truthful theories. Both the 1989 AMR and 1995 ASQ theory forums start with a problem journal editors have trying to get authors to improve the quality of their theory. The gravity of the problem is indicated by the title of the ASQ forum—―What Theory Is Not.‖ When asked for better theory, authors are not being cajoled to move from good theory to great theory. Instead, they appear quite off the track on what theory is, preferring instead to supply raw ingredients such as more references, data, variables, diagrams, or hypotheses (Sutton and Staw, 1995) instead of effective theory. But saying, for example, that a cake is not eggs, not flour, not sugar, not butter, not chocolate…does not say what it is. The kind of theory Sutton and Staw want to see is not just the result of more discipline and more imagination. But if it is not longer lists of references and variables, and if it is not guaranteed simply from more discipline and imagination—well, What Is Theory? Really!

Keywords: psychology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2011-06-17
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