Over the past 25 years, technological improvements that have made the collection,
transmission, storage, and analysis of data significantly easier and more cost efficient have …

Epistemology is concerned with the preconditions and goals of knowledge, helping us to
understand how knowledge is generated. However, in recent years, the availability of Big …

The objectives of this paper are to examine to what extent Big Data are presently used in
population research and to consider their potential for causal inference. After examining the …

In the past few years, several demographers have pointed out the need to consider big data
in population studies. Some are in favour of data-driven approaches, as statistical algorithms …

Much of the scholarship in organizational studies is based on a hypotheticaldeductive
approach (HDA) whose use has been challenged. In this article, the authors examine the …