and controversies in mainstream academic finance. It identifies the context among paradigms and the structure within the … finance, in particular. It notes how any worldview can be positioned on a continuum formed by four basic paradigms … mainstream academic finance, despite their apparent diversity, are founded on and associated with the functionalist paradigm …

and controversies in mainstream academic finance. It identifies the context among paradigms and the structure within the … finance, in particular. It notes how any worldview can be positioned on a continuum formed by four basic paradigms … mainstream academic finance, despite their apparent diversity, are founded on and associated with the functionalist paradigm …

Any adequate analysis of the nature and role of the mathematical language in finance necessarily requires fundamental … with the premise that any worldview can be positioned on a continuum formed by four basic paradigms: functionalist …, interpretive, radical humanist, and radical structuralist. It looks at the current state of mainstream academic finance and notes …

Design. Three possible paradigms which could be used are discussed, namely the prescriptive approach, positivism and … phenomenology. The possibility of combining paradigms is also investigated. A case study of an application developed by the authors …