Introduction: on making a life in the organizational sciences

by Glick, Miller, and Cardinal ''Making a life in the field of organizational sciences''. Their major theme is that ours is a weak paradigm field in which there is no consensus about the methods and problems that should be addressed in our research and scholarship, compared to the natural sciences that have strong paradigms widely accepted throughout the field. The ramification of weak paradigms is that it leads to arbitrary and capricious decisions by peer reviewers, and those decisions make or break one's career through acceptance or rejection of one's work. Thus success, particularly early in one's career, is determined too much by arbitrary factors beyond anyone's control