Skip to content  Another day, another plagiarist  This one isn’t
actually new, but it’s new to me. It involves University of
Michigan business school professor Karl Weick. Here’s the
relevant paragraph of Weick’s Wikipedia entry (as of 13 Apr
2012):  In several published articles, Weick related a story
that originally appeared in a poem by Miroslav Holub that was
published in the Times Literary Supplement. Weick plagiarized
Holub in that he republished the poem (with some minor
differences, including removing line breaks and making small
changes in a few words) without quotation or attribution. Some
of Weick’s articles included the material with no reference to
Holub; others referred to Holub but without indicating that
Weick had essentially done a direct copy of Holub’s writing. The
plagiarism was detailed in an article by Thomas Basbøll and
Henrik Graham.[5] In a response, Weick disputed the claim of
plagiarism, writing, “By the time I began to see the Alps story
as an example of cognition in the path of th