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Perspective—Making Doubt Generative: Rethinking the Role of Doubt in the Research Process

Locke, Karen, Golden-Biddle, Karen, Feldman, Martha S.·2008·Organization Science
DOI 10.1287/orsc.1080.0398
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In this paper, we want to shift the attention of our scholarly community to the living condition of doubt and its underappreciated significance for the theorizing process. Drawing on Peirce's notion of abduction, we articulate the relationship between doubt and belief in the everyday imaginative work central to theorizing, and establish the role played by doubt as abduction's engine in these efforts. We propose three strategic principles for engaging and using doubt in the research process. In concluding, we explore our field's overemphasis on validation to the exclusion of discovery processes and to the detriment of excellence in theorizing. We call for a broadening of our notions of “methodology” to incorporate discovery processes and to begin their explication.

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Authors
Locke, K., Golden-Biddle, K., & Feldman, M. S.
Venue
Organization Science
Publisher
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Published
2008-12
Volume
19
Issue
6
Pages
907-918
ISSN
  • 1047-7039 (ISSN-L)
  • 1526-5455
DOI
10.1287/orsc.1080.0398
OpenAlex
W2092302196
Cited by
570
References
2
FWCI
14.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
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