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Od tożsamości i integracji do społecznego zakotwiczenia - propozycja nowej koncepcji teoretycznej
Grzymała-Kazłowska, Aleksandra - 2013
). The proposed approach provides an opportunity to integrate the issues of identity, adaptation and integration as well as … the role of identity for the analysis of a contemporary society and reasons why the concept of identity is so problematic … are examined. Afterwards the problem of relationship between identity, on the one hand, and integration as well as social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011470867
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Theoretical and Methodological Context of (Post)-Modern Econometrics and Competing Philosophical Discourses for Policy Prescription
Jackson, Emerson Abraham - 2018
This research article was championed as a way of providing discourses pertaining to the concept of "Critical Realism (CR)" approach, which is amongst many othe forms of competing postmodern philosophical concepts for the engagement of dialogical discourses in the area of established econometric...
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Pluralismus in der Ökonomik - verpasste Chance, überfälliges Programm oder normalwissenschaftliche Realität?
Quaas, Friedrun - 2020
The pluralism debate in economics that has been going on for two decades has not yet been able to provide an exhaustive answer to the question of how to deal meaningfully with the phenomenon of a real plurality of paradigms, theories and methods in a fragmented scientific community....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197950
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What causes inequity in access to publicly funded health services that are supposedly free at the point of use? A case of user fee exemptions for older people in Senegal
Mladovsky, Philipa; Bâ, Maymouna - 2016
Plan Sésame (PS) was launched in 2006 to provide free access to health services to Senegalese citizens aged 60 and over. As in many countries, this user fee exemption is marred by inequitable implementation. This study seeks to identify underlying causal mechanisms to explain how and why some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291420
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Models and Reality: How Did Models Divorced from Reality Become Epistemologically Acceptable?
Zaman, Asad - In: International Econometric Review (IER) 12 (2020) 1, pp. 24-49
Economic models translate real problems to an artificial world, and calculate outcomes. The match between artificial worlds populated by rational robots, and the real world, is never assessed. Instead, models are judged on aesthetic grounds, involving conformity to preconceived principles of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610978
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Personality, work-life balance, hardiness, and vocation: A typology of nurses and nursing values in a special sample of English hospital nurses
Bagley, Christopher; Abubaker, Mahmoud; Sawyerr, Alice - In: Administrative Sciences 8 (2018) 4, pp. 1-21
This initial report of a longitudinal study of 192 English hospital nurses measured Nursing Values (the 6Cs of nursing); Personality, Self-Esteem and Depression; Burnout Potential;Work-Life Balance Stress; "Hardy Personality"; and Intention to Leave Nursing. Correlational, component, and cluster...
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The pluralism of digital twins for urban management: Bridging theory and practice
Al-Sehrawy, Ramy; Kumar, Bimal; Watson, Richard - In: Journal of Urban Management 12 (2023) 1, pp. 16-32
Digital twins have great potential for improving urban management. However, the way that they are formulated seems to vary according to the aims of the urban management taking place. For instance, digital twins are made sophisticated and innovative when the urban manager wants to demonstrate...
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Viewing the leadership narrative through alternate lenses: An autoethnographic investigation
Parry, Ken W. - In: Management Revue 19 (2008) 1/2, pp. 126-147
This conceptual-theoretical article revisits the work of Parry and Hansen on the nature of the organizational story as leadership. The present article is written in the autoethnographic style. The original narrative work is re-examined through the lenses of autoethnography, narrative theory,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318233
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Critical Realism and Econometrics
Bache, Ida Wolden - 2003
In "Economics and Reality" (1997) Tony Lawson advocates a perspective on social reality labelled critical realism. Critical realism maintains that strict regularities between observable events are the exception rather than the rule in the social world. This is a negative argument for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012143607
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Income comparisons, income adaptation, and life satisfaction: How robust are estimates from survey data?
Pfaff, Tobias - 2013
Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests …, reference income, and income adaptation. Models simultaneously controlling for income and income rank as well as models with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316019