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Martin, Albert - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 20 (2009) 2, pp. 149-157

Dialectics as a scientific method has its limitations. Dialectics as an intrinsic aspect of reality is an eminent and essential force in social life. Dialectics is about structures and dialectics is about change. This article shows how dialectic mechanisms work. The general considerations are...

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Mechanisms of Change

Martin, Albert; Weisenfeld, Ursula; Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, … - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 20 (2009) 2, pp. 117-125

To understand organizational, strategic and technological change it would be helpful to resort to mechanisms that are responsible for triggering and directing deep-seated social change processes. Propositions about mechanisms have an interesting epistemological status, they take an intermediate...

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A Case for Cases

Abell, Peter - In: Sociological Methods & Research 38 (2009) 1, pp. 38-70

When case studies are constructed as narratives, then causal explanation can be achieved without either comparison or …

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Mainstream economics: searching where the light is

Langhe, Rogier De - In: Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 32 (2009) 1, pp. 137-150

the face of its poor empirical track record. An explanation is provided in terms of a combination of unification and, most … importantly, inference to the best explanation. This paper asks whether the appeal of mainstream economics to inference to the … best explanation is justified and as a consequence questions one of the main reasons for the dominance of mainstream …

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—Assumptions, Explanation, and Prediction in Marketing Science: “It's the Findings, Stupid, Not the Assumptions”

Tsang, Eric W. K. - In: Marketing Science 28 (2009) 5, pp. 986-990

explain and not just to predict. The role of explanation is more important in the social sciences because it is far more …

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Timing and fragmentation of daily working hours arrangements and income inequality – An earnings treatment effects approach with German time use diary data

Merz, Joachim; Böhm, Paul; Burgert, Derik - In: electronic International Journal of Time Use Research 6 (2009) 2, pp. 200-239

(self-selection) and pattern specific earnings function explanation. The overall result: Individual earnings in Germany are …

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—Robust Prediction and Unrealistic Assumptions

Tsang, Eric W. K. - In: Marketing Science 28 (2009) 5, pp. 999-1000

In the response to my commentary on his 2007 editorial entitled “It's the Findings, Stupid, Not the Assumptions,” Steven Shugan raises a number of thought-provoking ideas. In this rejoinder, I focus on three issues that Shugan and I hold the most divergent views. First, while Shugan uses the...

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Mechanisms of change

Martin, Albert; Weisenfeld-Schenk, Ursula; … - In: Management revue : MRev 20 (2009) 2, pp. 117-125

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Study of long waves in the interwar period

Sirůček, Pavel - In: Politická ekonomie 1999 (1999) 3

Problems of economic cycle moves (including long run cycles) were studied thoroughly in the period between World Wars. Besides the U.S.S.R. (where this topic was analyzed beside N.D. Kondratieff also by L.D. Trotsky) the studies covering the long-run economic "booms" were writen also by...

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Creating Explanations That Guide and Motivate

Randles, Theodore J.; Blades, Chris D. - In: Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM) 06 (2007) 01, pp. 25-32

the explanation facilities of knowledge-based systems (KBS) are addressed. Furthermore, drawing from the lessons learned … justification and strategic explanation facilities for KBS is presented. Rather than enabling computers to make profound decisions …

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