Speaker: Mikko Ketokivi (IE Business School)
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Time: Friday, May 3 at 10 am (EST) / 3 pm (London). This webinar is scheduled for 90 minutes, including Q&A.
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Registration: Please register here to receive a personalized Zoom link and a reminder prior to the event.
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This webinar is the third of five sessions in the Contributing to Theory Progress online course.
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Surprisingly enough, the structure of arguments remains under-researched and under-specified in many contexts, including scientific argumentation: What is the basic structure of an argument? What is the role of empirical data? How about assumptions? In organizational and management research, there are many competing paradigms that vary drastically in their approaches and underpinning assumptions; how is this evident in how arguments are structured? Are there choices associated with arguments? What are these choices, and where do we make them? In this session, we look at how arguments are made and how claims are justified.
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Recommended reading:
- Toulmin, S. E., Rieke, R., & Janik, A. (1979). An Introduction to Reasoning. New York: Macmillan.
- Toulmin, S. E. ([1958] 2003). The Uses of Argument. Updated ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Ketokivi, M., & Mantere, S. (2021). What warrants our claims? A methodological evaluation of argument structure. Journal of Operations Management, 67, 755-776.
- Ketokivi, M., Fosse, S., & Kawalek P. (2024). The ethical embeddedness of the economic inequality debate. Working paper under review.
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About the speaker:
Mikko Ketokivi is a Professor of Operations Management & Organization Design at IE University in Madrid. He is an organization economist interested in the design and governance of all kinds of organizations: small and large, public and private, for-profit and non-profit. He received his Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Minnesota in 2000. Over the past 20 years, he has taught organization economics, operations management, organization design, governance, and statistical research methods in business schools and technical universities in the US, France, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, and his native Finland. His book Efficient Governance: A Governance Approach (Oxford University Press, 2023) takes a practical look at organization design and governance questions.
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Ibrat Djabbarov, Ph.D.
Imperial College London
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