Value-laden social sciences have been discussed over its objectivity ever since birth. The issue around is of methodological and oncological importance, further concerning the disciplines’ credibility long-term development. This paper aims to bring about several crucial debates this topic, hoping in new spotlights for academia’s faith future sciences. It thus reviews some essential literature p...

Three strategies for scientific research in management are examined: advocacy, induction, and multiple hypotheses. Advocacy of a single dominant hypothesis is efficient, but biased. Induction is not biased, but it is inefficient. The multiple hypotheses strategy seems to be both efficient and unbiased. Despite its apparent lack of objectivity, most management scientists use advocacy. For exampl...

Although critiques of objectivity have been vast, and experimental, postmodern approaches have been important and inspiring, the author argues that the pursuit of objectivity per se is not the biggest roadblock to producing critical knowledge. Rather, problems of objectivity are rooted in the larger issue of emotional detachment, which is facilitated by academic armor. Emotional detachment is i...