The study investigated the effects of computer simulations on students' Epistemological Beliefs, Motivation and Conceptual Understanding in Electricity. It sought to answer the following questions: What are the effects of computer simulations on; Epistemological Beliefs, Motivation and...

Wissenschafts- und handlungstheoretische Fundierungen von Steuerwirkungstheorien -- Erkenntniskritische Analyse neoklassischer Steuerwirkungstheorie -- Entwicklung und kritische Prüfung einer abweichenden evolutorischen Steuerwirkungstheorie -- Theorietranszendenter Vergleich beider Ansätze. .

We investigate the challenge how the outcomes of innovation for inclusive growth, the novel organizational recipes, can be scaled to match the dimension of poverty. We conceptualize scaling as sustained event regularities between doing A and expected outcomes B. Building on a critical realist...

We define a generalized state-space model with interactive unawareness and probabilistic beliefs. Such models are desirable for potential applications of asymmetric unawareness. Applying our unawareness belief structures, we show that the common prior assumption is too weak to rule out...

The article discusses Olaf Helmer's contribution to the development of futures studies by focusing on four basic theses defining his approach. (1) Quasi-laws in social sciences and futures studies can in fact be treated in the same way that the natural laws of the physical sciences. (2) In order...

Capital budgeting or investment decisions have an essential influence on companies' performance. Instead of a rational choice, capital budgeting might be regarded as a process of reality construction. Research suggests that decision makers have only limited control over their own cognitive...