Abstract In the mainstream discourse, management studies and value judgment have been treated as two unrelated areas. Value-free has been the basic principle of management research. However, management is the discipline in the range of natural, social science and humanities, which determines it’s impossible to entirely persist value-free in management research. This paper argues we should abandon false “valuefree”, recognize the status of value judgments, and admit the usage of “value-relevance” principle. Persisting “value-relevance” is also the important way for academics to express their social responsibilities.
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