Publication details
"Narrative fallacy" in managerial learning
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | When defending his doctoral dissertation, Umberto Eco was accused of narrative fallacy, because he presented his research as if it were a detective novel. Instead, he should have presented only his conclusions. This critique, however, inspired Umberto Eco with the idea that ‘Every scientific book should be ... the report of a quest for some Holy Grail.’ This ‘quest’ presupposes engagement on both sides of a knowledge transfer. Built upon our own research, we shall provide a model-theoretic scheme within the bounds of management to support the practicability of Eco’s claim. The idea of the method we introduce is to re-create engagement in establishing problem-solving competence in managerial learning: We start with an analysis of case-studies about successful managerial problem solutions where abstractions and explanations occur. Next, we attempt to find a common denominator between the successful solutions. Lastly, we analyze re-placement, i.e. the re-instantiating of the principles found in the previous step by applying them in new problem situations, and thus providing new uses for them. When defending his doctoral dissertation, Umberto Eco was accused of narrative fallacy, because he presented his research as if it were a detective novel. Instead, he should have presented only his conclusions. This critique, however, inspired Umberto Eco with the idea that ‘Every scientific book should be ... the report of a quest for some Holy Grail.’ This ‘quest’ presupposes engagement on both sides of a knowledge transfer. Built upon our own research, we shall provide a model-theoretic scheme within the bounds of management to support the practicability of Eco’s claim. |