Comments on: Weirdest Abstract I Read Today http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/12/30/weirdest-abstract-i-read-today/ Economics of organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:34:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Peter Klein http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/12/30/weirdest-abstract-i-read-today/#comment-9251 Peter Klein Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:07:46 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/12/30/weirdest-abstract-i-read-today/#comment-9251 akinto, I agree that a certain degree of humility is called for when evaluating the work of another scholar, particularly outside one's own discipline. For all I know, this is the best paper ever written in Chicana lesbian culinary science. But I am less tolerant than you regarding the genre itself, which looks like something dreamed up by Alan Sokal. akinto, I agree that a certain degree of humility is called for when evaluating the work of another scholar, particularly outside one’s own discipline. For all I know, this is the best paper ever written in Chicana lesbian culinary science. But I am less tolerant than you regarding the genre itself, which looks like something dreamed up by Alan Sokal.

]]> By: akinto http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/12/30/weirdest-abstract-i-read-today/#comment-9245 akinto Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:19:54 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/12/30/weirdest-abstract-i-read-today/#comment-9245 Chill. This will not make the earth stop revolving around the sun. Different from Orgs and Markets, certainly. Incomprehensible or beside the point to most of your readers? Very likely. But it's probably not helpful to ridicule academic work in entirely different disciplines. It reduces the scope of legitimate work for all of us. Be glad she's doing what she's doing. It makes papers on Maghribi traders look much less eccentric to the untrained eye. Chill. This will not make the earth stop revolving around the sun.

Different from Orgs and Markets, certainly.

Incomprehensible or beside the point to most of your readers? Very likely.

But it’s probably not helpful to ridicule academic work in entirely different disciplines. It reduces the scope of legitimate work for all of us.

Be glad she’s doing what she’s doing. It makes papers on Maghribi traders look much less eccentric to the untrained eye.

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