Published testimony in management, as in other sciences, includes cases where authors have overstated the inferential value of their analysis. Where some scholars have diagnosed a current crisis, we detect an ongoing and universal difficulty: the epistemic problem of learning from testimony. Overcoming this difficulty will require responses suited to the conditions of management research. To that end, we review the philosophical literature on the epistemology of testimony, which describes the conditions under which common empirical claims provide a basis for knowledge, and we evaluate ways these conditions can be verified. We conclude that in many areas of management research, popular proposals such as preregistration and replication are unlikely to be effective. We suggest revised modes of testimony that could help researchers and readers to avoid some barriers to learning from testimony. Finally, we imagine the implications of our analysis for management scholarship and propose how new standards could come about.

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从管理学定量研究的见证中学习

与其他科学一样，管理学中已发表的证词包括作者夸大其分析的推论价值的情况。在一些学者诊断出当前危机的地方，我们发现了一个持续存在的普遍困难：从证词中学习的认知问题。克服这一困难需要适合管理研究条件的应对措施。为此，我们回顾了关于证词认识论的哲学文献，这些文献描述了常见的经验主张为知识提供基础的条件，并评估了这些条件可以被验证的方式。我们得出的结论是，在管理研究的许多领域，预注册和复制等流行建议不太可能有效。我们建议修改证词模式，以帮助研究人员和读者避免从证词中学习的一些障碍。最后，我们想象我们的分析对管理学术的影响，并提出新标准如何产生。