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Social Theory and Social Structure

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The article was published on 1949-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 13688 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social change & Social relation.

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A Framework for Theory Development in Design Science Research: Multiple Perspectives

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method to solve the problem of the problem: the one-dimensional graph. But it was shown to be ineffective, not useful, in practice.
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The focus groups in social research: advantages and disadvantages

TL;DR: The focus group technique has been recently rediscovered by social scientists and it has become the subject of important methodological discussions and it is now considered a very innovative research method as mentioned in this paper, however, it seems that the FG is often adopted only because it is considered an easy-to-organise and inexpensive technique.
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Whose Call to Answer: Institutional Complexity and Firms’ CSR Reporting

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A transtheoretical approach to changing organizations.

TL;DR: The Transtheoretical Model has the potential to do for organizational change what it has done for individual behavior change and conceptually the stages-of-change dimension can be used to integrate principles and processes of change from divergent models of change.
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The Knowledge Gap Hypothesis: Twenty-Five Years Later

TL;DR: Citizens’ acquisition of mass media information has long been a concern of social scientists and policy makers and the conventional wisdom that increasing the flow of information will ensure its widescale spread is misguided.