There are several key sensemaking models and theories that have attracted a lot of attention among researchers and practitioners in the last few decades. The adaptation and …
The objective of this paper is to highlight similarities and differences across various case study designs and to analyze their respective contributions to theory. Although different …
O Lizardo - American Sociological Review, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
While influential across a wide variety of subfields, cultural analysis in sociology continues to be hampered by coarse-grained conceptualizations of the different modes in which culture …
D Beach - Oxford research encyclopedia of politics, 2017 - researchgate.net
Summary (250 words) Process-tracing is a research method for tracing causal mechanisms using detailed, within-case empirical analysis of how a causal process plays out in an actual …
The transformative turn of innovation policy has resulted in calls for a more entrepreneurial and directional role of the state. However, the multiple roles that the state might play remains …
Process tracing is a method that aims to trace causal mechanisms as they play out in real- world cases using in-depth case studies. The analytical focus is on understanding the …
This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society …
In this comprehensive reconstruction of causal case study methods, Derek Beach, Rasmus Brun Pedersen, and their coauthors delineate the ontological and epistemological …
B Danermark, M Ekström, JC Karlsson - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Fully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Explaining Society constitutes an up …