Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171075 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6611
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This research presents the results of a survey regarding scientific misconduct elicited from a sample of 1,215 management researchers. We find that misconduct (research that was either fabricated or falsified) is not encountered often by reviewers nor editors. Yet, there is a strong prevalence of misrepresentations (method inadequacy, omission or withholding of contradictory results, dropping of unsupported hypotheses). Despite these findings, respondents put a fair deal of trust in the replicability and robustness of findings being published. A sizeable majority of editors and authors eschew open data policies but sees value in replication studies to ensure credibility in empirical research.
Subjects: 
scientific misconduct
data fabrication
data misrepresentation
ethics
JEL: 
K30
A11
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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