This paper compares social network and tribal theory for their fit with the behaviour of real music communities. These …, measure, and interact with communities of consumers. The bases for this comparison are how these perspectives treat community … boundary demarcation, communication processes, and the temporal order of events in community creation. Results indicate that …

. This need for theory arises from the status of ESS as an integrative interdiscipline—one practitioners of ESS celebrate … are ideas that take us places, not just idle speculation, and by advocating “theory across the (ESS) curriculum.” In …

methods and theory types used by scholars identifies key strengths and weaknesses of each. Different schools of heterodox … [that is, non-neoclassical] economics, as well as neoclassical economics itself, emphasize different sets of theory and … heterodox schools, like neoclassical economics itself, tend to act as if it were thought that their theory and method were …

information, • Theory is brought to bear so that the problem can be understood and analyzed, • Explanation involves … interaction between data and theory in order to make clear that which needs to be understood, • Prescription points to actions …