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Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive and direct further … be so that authors call for significant policy changes? These questions are difficult to answer, because rhetoric on the … wording in these studies and their prevalence to ask for policy intervention. Furthermore, we examine whether the rhetoric …
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Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can a lso drive and direct further …, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … when they call for policy activism or when they are more hesitant to do so. Furthermore, we examine whether the rhetoric …
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This paper considers how companies use their own mass communication media to create, with the aid of metaphors, a legitimizing image of their practices. The analysis is based on the example of two banks, both of which undertook massive staff and cost reductions between 2001 and 2003. Downsizing...
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Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive and direct further …, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … rhetoric used really reveals an author's prejudice on the topic which may also be reflected in data selection and thereby his …
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The rhetoric of economics has long claimed scientific objectivity, however the late, great economist Joan Robinson … learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.' This unique book examines the use of rhetoric in economics, focusing on …
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ill health - of the theory are much exaggerated. In this article we provide a defence of the life-cycle framework as a …
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Kurt W. Rothschild Lecture, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, 22 November 2001.
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'theory first' versus the 'data first' perspectives in the context of a broader methodological framework with a view to …
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economic behaviour will be interpreted as a sort of validity test of economic theory. …
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Wirtschaften vollzieht sich unzweifelhaft in der Zeit - aber kann man aus dieser Tatsache wirklich einen direkten Analogieschluss zwischen der natürlich-biologischen Evolution und dem Wirtschaftsprozess ziehen? Müßte dazu nicht nur sowohl das begriffliche als auch das methodische Arsenal der...
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