Greetings. First, usual apologies for cross-postings.
My colleagues Greg Stephens (TCU) and Mary Sue Love (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) and I constitute AOM's Ombuds Committee. Thanks to Rick Reis' e-column (Tomorrow's Professor), I came across the article, "Self-Correction: What to Do When You Realize Your Publication is Fatally Flawed," (The Scientist, http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/44594/title/Self-Correction/). In it, the researcher announces – in a very public venue - her research's serious error and that her previously published findings were erroneous. She did this voluntarily; no one knew of her mistake previously.
This researcher is from the biological sciences. We believe it would be worth highlighting and honoring similar occurrences in our field, with a goal of building discussion of ethical actions after errors are discovered. With that objective in mind, we want to contribute an entry to AOM's ethics blog, The Ethicist. We would like to ask for your help. If you know of similar incidents in which a scholar in our field has realized a significant error and "gone public" with it, please let us know. Thanks in advance!
Nancy E. Day
Associate Professor, HR & OB
Faculty Ombudsperson
University of Missouri – Kansas City
HW Bloch School
5110 Cherry
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
816-235-2333
dayn@umkc.edu
facultyombuds@umkc.edu