scholarly journals A Network-Graph Based IT Artifact Aiding the Theory Building Process

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Senft ◽  
Edward Corrado
Keyword(s):  
Theory Building ◽  
Network Graph ◽  
Building Process ◽  
It Artifact

Inside the Municipal Lobby: Explaining Local Government Influence on the New EU Public Procurement Directives

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Verhelst
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Causal Model ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Opportunity Structure ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
Government Influence ◽  
Building Process ◽  
The Eu

Despite a challenging context, local authorities succeeded in influencing one of the most fiercely debated issues of the new EU Public Procurement Directives (2014): the (conditional) exemption of public-public cooperation (PPC). Using theory-building process-tracing this paper analyses the PPC-case to design a parsimonious causal model of successful municipal lobbying under challenging circumstances. The model represents a composed mechanism that triggered municipal lobby influence through the interplay of three basic parts: a strategic lobby campaign deployed by a strong protagonist, an external opportunity structure underpinning and strengthening the latter and a significantly receptive EU decision-making arena. Furthermore, the case suggests that in challenging lobby cases local government can profit from its distinctive character as an electorally legitimised and politically connected interest group to promote its interests in the EU polity.

scholarly journals Mathematical Models of Consciousness

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 609
Author(s):  
Johannes Kleiner
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Mathematical Representation ◽  
Mathematical Framework ◽  
Physical Domain ◽  
Mathematical Structures ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Epistemic Context

In recent years, promising mathematical models have been proposed that aim to describe conscious experience and its relation to the physical domain. Whereas the axioms and metaphysical ideas of these theories have been carefully motivated, their mathematical formalism has not. In this article, we aim to remedy this situation. We give an account of what warrants mathematical representation of phenomenal experience, derive a general mathematical framework that takes into account consciousness’ epistemic context, and study which mathematical structures some of the key characteristics of conscious experience imply, showing precisely where mathematical approaches allow to go beyond what the standard methodology can do. The result is a general mathematical framework for models of consciousness that can be employed in the theory-building process.

scholarly journals Building a Theoretical Framework for Corporate Sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Joaquin Sanchez-Planelles ◽  
Marival Segarra-Oña ◽  
Angel Peiro-Signes
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Large Field ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Sustainable Operations ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Sustainable Business Models

Literature about sustainability and sustainable businesses has become a large field of study during the last years. This field is growing so fast that there are sub-areas or bodies of literature within the sustainability which scopes with clear boundaries between each other. This has caused the apparition of several methodologies and tools for turning traditional companies into sustainable business models. This paper aims to develop the descriptive stage of the theory building process through a careful review of literature to create the first phase of a theory about corporate sustainability. It provides the following classification of concepts retrieved from the observation of the state of art: holistic sustainability, sustainable business models, sustainable methodologies, sustainable operations, and sustainability-oriented innovation. In addition, it seeks to establish relationships between the sustainable concepts and the expected outcomes that their implementation can generate among companies and organizations. Finally, it gives an overview of possibilities for managers that want to embed sustainability in their firms and clear paths of research for keeping the building of the theory about corporate sustainability as a process of constant iteration and improvement.

Virtual Organization

2003 ◽  
pp. 207-215
Author(s):  
Jinyoul Lee ◽  
Bandula Jayatilaka
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Building Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dual Identities ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discloses the social aspects of a virtual organization and identifies the role of human actors in a virtual organization (consciousness). This consciousness exists in the perceptual world that we create beyond the limits of time and space. However, its counterparts exist in various forms (entities) in the real world. To bridge the gaps between the consciousnesses and the entities, there exist dual identities of human interveners in both virtual and real worlds. This research provides the meaning of virtual organization, and proceeds to explain the relationship between the consciousnesses (virtual organizations) and entities (real organizations) with human intervention (human players) using structuration theory. This study uses a theory-building process to understand human activities in virtual organizations. The theory proposed in this study reflects the epistemological positions of virtual organization research.

scholarly journals Reflecting and Integrating the Contextual Influences of Ambiguities and Institutional Power in Organisational Research Design: A Case of Myanmar

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 341-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandar Win ◽  
Alexander K. Kofinas
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Contextual Influences ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
Organisational Research

ABSTRACTOur understanding of how an organisation operates is elucidated by the host country's political system. Myanmar has remained abstruse to researchers for many decades, as do most emerging markets prior to their transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy such as China. We establish how the problematising and contextualisation of the methodologies adopted during longitudinal fieldwork in Myanmar (2008 to 2016) has influenced our research focus and question. By reflecting on our experience of conducting organisational research in a highly institutionalised environment, we have identified limitations in the prevalent research methodologies used by the extant literature. Such methodologies tend to be incompatible with the Asian context. This process of problematisation required us to remain flexible and adaptive during the process of the generation of the research questions. We adopted a context-informed theory-building process and reflect on the interplay between interviewer, interviewees, and local institutional contexts. An important insight from this process was the need to nullify the asymmetry of power between the interviewer and interviewees to obtain honest responses rather than superficial data that aimed to satisfy and please the interviewer/institutional context.

Toward Pragmatic Criteria for Evaluating HRD Research

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Bechtel Jayanti
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Systems Dynamics ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Pragmatic Research ◽  
Quality Of Research

Although well-established criteria exist for evaluating the quality of research conducted using the Positivistic lens, and some criteria exist for judging research conducted using the Postmodernist lens, few criteria exist for judging research conducted using the Pragmatic lens. This is significant as mixed methods, complexity, and systems dynamics research belong to this lens, and a lack of criteria for judging quality may alternately contribute to either a shortage of Pragmatic research or a plethora of lower quality, uncritically evaluated Pragmatic research. The purpose of this article is to propose a theory-building process for Pragmatic research and to explore some possible criteria for evaluating the quality of Pragmatic research.

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