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Application of Process Tracing Method in Organizational and Management Research [PDF]
روش شناسی علوم انسانی, 2022 Researchers in the field of organization and management, generally conduct research with the aim of describing or explaining a phenomenon. Clearly, in researches aimed at explanation, it is important to identify the causal chains that create a phenomenon.
Mohammad Hadi Ranjbar +2 more
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Current Biology, 2022 In this My word, Press et al. tackle the 'theory crisis' in cognitive science. Using examples of good and not-so-good theoretical practice, they distinguish theories from effects, predictions, hypotheses, typologies, and frameworks in a self-help checklist of seven questions to guide theory construction, evaluation, and testing.
Press, C, Yon, D, Heyes, C
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Ten recommendations for political ecology case research
Journal of Political Ecology, 2022 Contributions in political ecology draw heavily on case study research. This has triggered questions regarding the wider theoretical relevance to such studies. This article argues that one of the main shortcomings of political ecology case studies is not
Cornelia Helmcke
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Crowd modelling: aggregating non-expert views as a method for theorizing
International Journal of Crowd Science, 2021 PurposeThis paper aims to introduce a crowd-based method for theorizing. The purpose is not to achieve a scientific theory. On the contrary, the purpose is to achieve a model that may challenge current scientific theories or lead research in new ...
Octavio González Aguilar
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On abduction, dualities and reason
Science & Philosophy, 2023 We integrate dualistic conceptions of the real with Peirce's perspectives about reality and abduction, emphasizing the concept of reason underlying Peirce's thoughts.
Hernán Gustavo Solari +1 more
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International Journal of Communication, 2021 We argue the descriptive fit and heuristic power of social media scholarship is much increased when incorporating a comparative turn. To this end, we offer analytical categories for organizing research that has sought to (a) rely on multicountry data ...
Mora Matassi, Pablo Boczkowski
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UNIFYING TIME-TO-BUILD THEORY [PDF]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2013 Discrete-time and continuous-time models with time to build do not possess the same dimension. In this paper we address the dimensionality issue by revising the way time to build is traditionally measured when transforming the economic dynamics from discrete to continuous time.
Bambi, M., Gori, Franco
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Analysis of fluid-structure interaction of a torus subjected to wind loads
Computer Assisted Methods in Engineering and Science, 2017 In the paper the aerodynamic forces acting on a part of a water slide or other object with curved, tubular shape, depending on the section of a torus and value of the wind velocity, were obtained.
Agnieszka Padewska +2 more
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AS: Andragoška Spoznanja, 2023 The aim of this study is to search for the essence of andragogy through a critical examination of andragogy theorists and thereby increase the theoretical understanding of andragogy. Systematic reviews in 2013 and in 2021 led us to probe more deeply into
Anita Malinen, Arja Piirainen
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Administrative Sciences, 2023 The creation school of opportunity formation is a relatively new partial theory of entrepreneurship built upon a relatively new approach to theorizing. Given their significant respective impacts, we critically evaluate both that school and that approach ...
Richard J. Arend
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