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Methodology of the Social Sciences
Donald G. MacRae,Max Weber +1 more
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This article is published in British Journal of Sociology.The article was published on 1950-03-01. It has received 1694 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Economic methodology & Social studies.read more
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Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy
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A Realist Theory of Science.
R. A. Sharpe,Roy Bhaskar +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Roy Bhaskar sets out to revindicate ontology, critiquing the reduction of being in favor of knowledge, which he calls the ''epistemic fallacy'' and develops a new ontology in which concepts of structure, difference and change come to the fore.
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Institutions and the path to the modern economy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a multi-disciplinary perspective to study endogenous institutions and their dynamics, including the influence of the past, the ability of institutions to change, and the difficulty to study them empirically and devise a policy aimed at altering them.
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Linking Ways of Knowing with Ways of Being Practical
TL;DR: The authors Linking Ways of Knowing with Ways of Being Practical: Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 205-228, The authors, discusses the relationship between the ways of knowing and being practical.
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Discovery and creation: alternative theories of entrepreneurial action
Sharon Alvarez,Jay B. Barney +1 more
TL;DR: Two internally consistent theories of how entrepreneurial opportunities are formed, discovery theory and creation theory, are described in this paper, along with a discussion of the broader theoretical implications of these two theories for the fields of entrepreneurship and strategic management.