All researchers want to produce interesting and influential theories. A key step in all theory development is formulating innovative research questions that will result in interesting and significant research. In this text, Alvesson and Sandberg develop a methodology for identifying and...

This review helps to familiarize students with research approaches, worldviews, and concepts of theory/variables in research. Thus, supporting scholarly literature in the social sciences research contributes to existing knowledge on the meaning of research paradigms, theory, and framework in...

We develop an analysis of ex ante monitoring of risky projects in banking. If protected from competition, banks are more concerned about not catching good risk projects when the perceived state of the economy improves, while they are more concerned about being induced to finance bad risk...