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Relating performative and ostensive management accounting research: Reflections on case study methodology
Hansen, Allan - In: Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management 8 (2011) June, pp. 108-138
research. Design/methodology/approach – The basis for exploring the opportunities and threats stemming from integration at the …. Robert K. Yin's case study methodology is chosen to represent an ostensive view whereas performative case study methodology …
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Thought experiments, counterfactuals and comparative analysis
Aligica, Paul; Evans, Anthony - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 22 (2009) 3, pp. 225-239
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Crisis as Opportunity: Local Context, Adaptive Agents and the Possibilities of Rural Development
Wojan, Timothy; Rupasingha, Anil - In: Regional Studies 35 (2001) 2, pp. 141-152
The discussion outlines the ways in which crisis emasculates traditional methodology as used in economics by making the … core assumptions of this type of analysis (temporarily) untenable. Our critique of traditional methodology is limited to … extend to 'realist deficiencies' of the mainstream science. Rather, support for an instrumental-pragmatic methodology is …
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Turning Qualitative into Quantitative Evidence: A Well-Used Method Made Explicit
Carus A.W.; Ogilvie, S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2005
Many historians now reject quantitative methods as inappropriate to understanding past societies. It is argued here, however, that no sharp distinction between qualitative and quantitative concepts can be drawn, as almost any concept used to describe a past society is implicitly quantitative....
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Can We Rehabilitate the Guilds? A Sceptical Re-Appraisal
Ogilvie, S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2007
This paper examines recent attempts to rehabilitate pre-modern craft guilds as efficient economic institutions. Contrary to rehabilitation views, craft guilds adversely affected quality, skills, and innovation. Guild rent-seeking imposed deadweight losses on the economy and generated no...
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Irrigation management in Nepal: Research papers from a National Seminar, Bharatpur, Nepal, 4-6 June 1987
IIMI - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 1988
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Title: Strategic Intelligence Monitor on Personal Health Systems Phase 3 (SIMPHS 3) - Report on the methodological set-up for the SIMPHS3 research
Abadie, Fabienne; Codagnone, Cristiano; … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
This report presents the methodological set-up for the SIMPHS3 study, whose overall objective is the analysis of how Health Information Technologies (HIT) may facilitate integration in the provision of health and social care services in specific European regions and settings. To this end a...
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РАЗРАБОТКА НОВЫХ ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКИХ ПРИНЦИПОВ, ЦЕЛЕЙ И СПЕЦИАЛЬНЫХ МЕТОДОВ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННО-ПРАВОВЫХ ЯВЛЕНИЙ В СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ИСТОРИКО-ПРАВОВОЙ НАУКЕ...
БОРИСОВНА, ЛОМАКИНА ИРИНА; … - In: Бизнес в законе. … (2012) 3, pp. 10-13
статья посвящена исследованию возможностей выработки новых теоретических принципов, специальных методов изучения государственно-правовых явлений в...
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The World is Flat: Modeling Educators’ Misconduct with Cellular Automata
Osipian, Ararat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
. Applicability of the offered methodology and its value is in modeling, simulation, and control. … horizontal ties with the help of cellular automata. This paper offers a theoretical framework and a methodology based on cellular … presented methodology is based on cellular automata. In the essence of cellular automata are different programming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836218
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"It's not true": learning to learn from rejection
Southwell, Mirjam; Thomas, Will - In: International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and … 2 (2010) 4, pp. 373-384
This paper explores the experience of two academics commissioned, by a public body engaged in policy formulation, to carry out research to inform the policy process. During the presentation of qualitative data to the public body, one representative exclaimed "it's not true!" The report was...
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