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This paper addresses the link between the generation of economic knowledge and economic policy conclusions. Focusing on the case of research in international trade, I establish a taxonomy of rhetorical practices used to make such a link. The flexibility observed in these practices contrasts...
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, ontology, epistemology, and genuine research agenda. …
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This entry discusses the concept of "systemism", elaborates how it implicitly underpinned most seminal works of evolutionary-institutional economics, and explains how future research would benefit from making the systemist nature of evolutionary economics more explicit. More precisely, the paper...
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activity, questions of ethics arise which challenge what appears to be a flat ontology circumscribing its ethical applications …
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This short paper discusses the concept of "systemism", elaborates how it implicitly underpinned most seminal works of evolutionary-institutional economics, and explains how future research would benefit from making the systemist nature of evolutionary economics more explicit. More precisely, the...
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clusters of management research on reciprocity. Across these clusters, authors subscribe mainly to substantialist ontology …, marginalize morally oriented motives consistent with relational ontology, and largely assume that benefit-oriented motives …
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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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