Da Patente in der heutigen Wissensgesellschaft als Mittel zum Technologiehandel bzw. Technologietransfer zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnen, stellt sich auch die Frage nach dem möglichen Handel der Patente selbst. Dennoch hat sich bislang kein organisierter Markt für Patente gebildet, obwohl ein...

Recent developments in impact evaluation recognise the need to go beyond the intense debate over experimental techniques to incorporate theory-based approaches and qualitative research methods. Motivated by an underlying concern that qualitative research in this new wave of qualitative impact...

Understanding the political economic drivers of energy planning in the Brazilian Amazon is critical since the forest is increasingly vulnerable to destruction and related, increased poverty. This research investigates how political economy affects biomass and hydroelectricity development in that...

Evaluation choreography - or who knows what when through the process of impact evaluation - has an important influence on the credibility and usefulness of findings. We explore such choreography from technical, political and ethical perspectives through reflection on a collaborative case study...

The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequalitymeasurement tools to a health variable that is non-continuous or, in many cases, categorical. However, these...

Die Beiträge des Bandes zeigen und diskutieren das Potenzial einer mikrosoziologischen, prozessorientierten - qualitativen - Ungleichheitsforschung. Sie spüren Praktiken sozialer Besser- und Schlechterstellung in den Bereichen Bildung, Arbeit, soziale Beziehungen und Migration auf. Mit der...

We consider a new copula method for mixed marginals of discrete and continuous random variables. Unlike the Bayesian methods in the literature, we use maximum likelihood estimation based on closed-form copula functions. We show with a simulation that our methodology performs similar to the...

The role and importance of science -- Research in the social sciences -- Sources and types of scientific literature -- Methodology and research methods -- Design and implementation strategy of qualitative methods in scientific research -- Methods and techniques of data collection -- Notion,...

Notes on editors -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Researching everyday accounting practice : epistemological debate / Mark A. Covaleski, Kathryn Haynes, Zahirul Hoque and Lee D. Parker -- Worldviews and paradigms -- Social constructionist research in accounting : a...

Theoretical and methodological positions and the choice to use qualitative methods / Joanna Coast and Louise Jackson -- Designing qualitative research studies in health economics / Joanna Coast, Amanda Owen-Smith, and Philip Kinghorn -- Understanding sampling and recruitment / Amanda Owen-Smith...