One Truth and One Standard for Its Telling: Reporting on and About Scientific Business Research

There is consensus in literature that transparency (accurate and honest reporting) in management and business research is desirable. To improve transparency, commentators have stressed that research articles contain detail about procedural replicability, thus allowing for results reproducibility, at least (in the case of samples) across multiple trials. For all its merit, such advice neglects the particularised role of language in conveying scientific findings. This article argues that embracing positivist epistemology in management and business research entails adhering to linguistic standards. It is through such adherence that transparency is realised.