Pros and Cons for a Deductive Versus Inductive Research Method in Business Management

Abstract

Social Science research has always been argued due to different standpoints on a methodology to be employed, an actual subject of the research, and a scientific method validity-and-structure as a knowledge originator. In this paper we look at the scientific method becoming the structure research practice, making it possible to meet one of the main research axioms, i.e. experiments’ corroboration and replication, which serve as an evidence of different phenomena analyzed by science. This approach and others from different authors let us to understand that a mixture of some of these methodologies may produce better and far-reaching results. But at the same time, society creates a clash among those researchers who impose boundaries between what is desirable and what society should know.