Purpose: To describe the implicit epistemic flaw of “confirmation bias” and to illustrate and evaluate the threats to qualitative research trustworthiness from that bias. Design/methodology/approach: The article overviews evidence and analysis from a wide range of disciplines. The adverse...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe and critique ways in which the threats from confirmation bias have been rejected. Design/methodology/approach: Dismissals of the existence of, or threats from, confirmation bias are identified from a review of literature across a very wide range...

Purpose – According to an extensive and growing literature, we are in the twilight of bureaucracy. The labels applied to the supposed new organizational form include: post‐bureaucratic; post‐modern; post‐hierarchical; and the virtual organisation. The purpose of this paper is to consider...

Purpose – Although vanquished in anthropology, the notion “national culture” as a set of unique, shared, closed, enduring, coherent, determinate subjective values has been repopularized in management by Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE), Hofstede, and...