"As the breadth and empirical diversity of entrepreneurship research have increased rapidly during the last decade, the quest to find a "one-size-fits-all" general theory of entrepreneurship has given way to a growing appreciation for the importance of contexts. This promises to improve both the...

IC design is an iterative process; the initial specification of a design is rarely complete and correct. The designer begins with a preliminary and usually incorrect sketch (possibly from a previous generation design), and iteratively refines and corrects it. Usually, refinements are small, and...

Bridging ideological spaces is an important, but relatively troubled branch of the scaling literature. The most common bridging procedure, joint-scaling, ignores structural differences between groups resulting in uninformative results. Alternatively, dimensional-mapping addresses this issue by...

Scientific method theories and paradigms are some of the main questions explored in philosophy of science. Other issues that occupy the minds of scholars in this branch of philosophy include parameters for determining what qualifies as science, and the nature, purpose and reliability of science,...

Recently a credibility crisis has taken hold across the social sciences, arguing that a component of Fischer (1935)’s tripod has not been fully embraced: replication. The importance of replications is not debatable scientifically, but researchers’ incentives are not sufficient to encourage...

This open access book provides an exploration of the consequences of the ontological differences between natural and social objects (sometimes described as objects of nature and objects of thought) in the workings of causal and agency relationships. One of its important and possibly original...