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value-free conception of science  

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  • Advocates of a value-free conception of social science seek to do research that produces objective and valid knowledge based on verifiable empirical data. These researchers advance a positivist orientation to organizational science and seek to build causal theories through the use of rigorous scientific methods. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Value-Free Conception of Science]

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