Gerhard Scherhorn ist Ordinarius des in Deutschland einzigen Lehrstuhls für Konsumtheorie und Verbraucherpolitik an der Universität Hohenheim. Aus Anlaß seiner Emeritierung im Frühjahr 1998 haben ihm seine Schülerinnen und Schüler diese Schrift gewidmet. -- In den Arbeiten von Gerhard...

Contents: 1. Introduction to the field guide for research in community settings: Tools, methods, challenges and strategies / M. Rezaul Islam, Niaz Ahmed Khan, Siti Hajar Abu Bakar Ah, Haris Abd Wahab and Mashitah Binti Hamidi -- 2. Challenges and solutions for collecting data in health research:...

Drawing together a wealth of research methods knowledge gained by trust researchers into one essential volume, this book provides an authoritative in-depth consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical study of trust in the social sciences. This second edition of the...

Einführung in die empirische Datenanalyse -- Regressionsanalyse -- Varianzanalyse -- Kontingenzanalyse (Kreuztabellierung) -- Logistische Regression -- Diskriminanzanalyse -- Faktorenanalyse -- Clusteranalyse -- Conjointanalyse.

This volume contains an Open Access chapter. We have witnessed an avalanche of quantitative public measures over the past decades. Research in the social sciences has shown that rankings in particular are now a driving force of social change - both, desired and undesired - in many areas of...

This text addresses a question central to organizational analysis: Given the well-established differences between rational choice and organizational theories, what are the limits of fruitful dialogue and collaboration between the two fields?