January 1977
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2,199 Citations
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January 1977
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37 Reads
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2,199 Citations
... The realization of new concepts, constructs, artifacts and theories has long been linked with the discovery of the rules governing phenomena. During periods of revolutionary science resolving the accumulation of anomalies required "divergent thinking, … the freedom to go off in different directions, … rejecting the old solution and striking out in some new direction" (Kuhn 1977). This has been described as requiring disciplined imagination in which researchers undertake imaginary experiments and follow three interconnected "processes of evolution: variation, selection, and retention" (Weick 1989, p. 519). ...
January 1977