Archival Discipline and Knowledge Containment: Preventing Scope Creep in Long-Horizon Research
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper formalises archival discipline and knowledge containment as methodological requirements in long-horizon research programmes. It defines seed containment criteria, extraction governance rules, structural routing across layered research domains, symbolic material governance, dormancy classification, and auditability standards as safeguards against scope creep, theory inflation, authorship drift, and premature synthesis. The contribution is procedural rather than theoretical. No new theoretical constructs are introduced, and no prior work is reinterpreted. The paper establishes containment architecture intended to support durability, provenance integrity, and long-term recoverability in sustained research programmes.
Author: Crippin, Suzanne
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7128682019
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