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Describes the methodological ideas of Eucken and points to the actual significance of them. Eucken is, in his thinking on philosophical and methodological problems, related to Husserl. The theory of the economic order ( Ordnungs‐theorie ) is interdisciplinary. All kinds of modern directions in...
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Investigates the economic methodologies of Carl Menger, William Stanley Jevons and Gustav Schmoller with respect to the issue of whether mathematics is or is not an adequate language to express economic relationships. First, Menger’s and Jevons’s respective methodologies are identified as...
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converging their growth rates. Design/methodology/approach – This paper develops a closed form mathematical endogenous growth …
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in the uncertainty in the market. It argues that this uncertainty can be built into pricing models using probability …
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arguments as to why the “orthodox” statistician claims that normality is necessary. One is to enable probability interpretations …. The truth is that, even under normality, the usual probability interpretations are meaningless in practice and that, in … very similar over a wide range of differently‐shaped probability distributions.  …
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. Design/methodology/approach – Extending the framework developed by Davies et al. (2012), the perceived risk in a project is … captured by focussing on a downside case scenario and estimating its probability and severity. An expression is then developed …. Findings – The risk addendum is found to depend only on the product of the probability ( p ) and the severity ( d ) of the …
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dynamics and discrete event simulation) simulation which can be applied in the healthcare domain. Design/methodology …
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processes. A framework distinguishing three levels of abstraction (philosophy of science, methodology and theory, and practice …
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develop underpinning theory. This paper describes a grounded theory research methodology for TQM, rather than the actual … theory and results. The methodology was applied to 19 organisations and to a longitudinal case study. The methodology makes a … developed and applied. Second, the methodology enabled the practitioners involved in the study to be critically reflective and …
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This paper aims to contribute further to QFD applications in product development system of organisations by drawing reflections from managing an action research program on QFD applications in Brazilian organisations in the last ten years. The reflection follows two interwoven lines, theory and...
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