Taylor and Francis Ltd SEP_Foreword.sgm 10.1080/ 0 00-0 00 (pri t)/0000-0000 (online) Original Article 2 4 & Francis Ltd 8 002004 Objectivity has fruitfully been explored in last two decades, manifested by the many studies on ‘objectivity’ in various scientific disciplines. Due to the variety of contexts studied, the focus on where claims of objectivity can be found varies in each case: canon, ...

Necessary and sufficient relations between measurement objectivity and psychometric models for data in more than two categories are reviewed and extended. Rasch (1960, 1961) and others prove the sufficiency of Rasch models for objectivity. Douglas and Wright (1986) derive the model necessary for objectivity for data in two categories. Rasch (1968) outlines a proof of the model necessary for obs...

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...

Feminist philosophy of science has been criticized on several counts. On the one hand, it is claimed that it results in relativism of the worst sort since the political commitment to feminism is prima facie incompatible with scientific objectivity. On the other hand, when critics acknowledge that there may be some value in work that feminists have done, they comment that there is nothing partic...