scholarly journals The research agenda: the vital need for empirical research in child psychotherapy

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER FONAGY
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Child Psychotherapy

scholarly journals Institutional change and routine dynamics in service ecosystems

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-586
Author(s):  
Tiina Tuominen ◽  
Bo Edvardsson ◽  
Javier Reynoso
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Rules ◽  
Service Ecosystems ◽  
Multiple Actors

Purpose This study aims to understand and explain how institutional change occurs at the level of value co-creation practices in service ecosystems. Despite the centrality of collective practices to the service ecosystems perspective, theoretically grounded explanations of how practices change and become institutionalized remain underdeveloped. Applying the theory of routine dynamics, this paper addresses two questions as follows: what does the institutional change mean at the level of value co-creation practices and what processes underlie these changes? Design/methodology/approach The study develops a conceptual framework that characterizes value co-creation practices as routines involving three aspects, namely, ostensive, performative and artifactual. As a key element in institutional change, the interplay between these informs an account of institutional change processes in service ecosystems. Findings The proposed conceptual framework specifies the conditions for institutional change in terms of value co-creation routines. First, any such change is seen to be grounded in alignment between changing institutional rules and the ostensive, performative and artifactual aspects of routines. Second, this alignment is seen to emerge through a dialectics of planned and practice-based activities during institutional change. An empirical research agenda is proposed for the analysis of institutional change processes in different service ecosystems. Originality/value This conceptual framework extends existing accounts of how service ecosystems change through the contributions of multiple actors at the level of value co-creation practices.

An empirical research agenda for understanding formal methods productivity

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 102-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Jeffery ◽  
Mark Staples ◽  
June Andronick ◽  
Gerwin Klein ◽  
Toby Murray
Keyword(s):  
Formal Methods ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Agenda

Emancipatory Empiricism: The Rural Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Jakubek ◽  
Spencer D. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Rural Sociology ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Department Of Labor ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
The Social

In this article, the authors discuss W.E.B. Du Bois’ contributions to rural sociology, focusing specifically on his discussions of rural communities and the structure of agriculture. The authors frame his research agenda as an emancipatory empiricism and discuss the ways his rural research is primarily focused on social justice and the social progress of Black communities in rural spaces. Du Bois’ empirical research, funded by the Department of Labor from 1898 to 1905, provides evidence that Du Bois was among the first American sociologists to conduct empirical agrarian analyses and case studies of rural communities.

scholarly journals What Do We Know about Algorithmic Literacy? The Status Quo and a Research Agenda for a Growing Field

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch ◽  
German Neubaum
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Measurement Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Status ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The Relationship

The increasing emergence of algorithms in our daily use of technologies comes with a growing field of empirical research trying to understand how aware and knowledgeable individuals are about algorithms. This field is marked by a certain diversity in terms of how it theorizes and measures people’s literacy when interacting with algorithms. We propose converging on the term algorithmic literacy that covers different dimensions used by previous research. This article summarizes the state of knowledge on algorithmic literacy by systematically presenting initial steps in theory building and measurement development. Drawing on this, we propose an agenda including five different directions that future research could focus on: 1) theory building to understand algorithmic literacy, 2) addressing the algorithmic divide, 3) uncovering the relationship between algorithmic literacy and attitudes, 4) examining algorithmic literacy as predictor for user behavior, and 5) exploring ways to increase algorithmic literacy.

scholarly journals Evolution of human signed networks

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-293
Author(s):  
Patrick Doreian
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
The Other ◽  
Balance Theory ◽  
Group Level ◽  
The Status ◽  
New Research ◽  
Human Actors

Two strands of empirical research were based on Heider’s work. One was experimental and remained true to idea that mental affect processes operating within human actors are central while the other jumped to the level of group dynamics and relegated the mental affect processes to the status of background phenomena. By the 1980s, both strands had petered out with little cumulated knowledge. Recently, the ‘group-level’ strand of research has received renewed attention. Much of the recent work, while vigorous, has fallen short precisely because it ignored some of the foundational ideas of Heider. Given this diagnosis, I suggest a new research agenda for structural balance theory that integrates the dynamics of mental affect processes with group-level dynamics.

A Critical Review of Online Consumer Behavior

2008 ◽  
pp. 2038-2055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christy M.K. Cheung ◽  
Gloria W.W. Chan ◽  
Moez Limayem
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Online Consumer Behavior ◽  
The Past ◽  
Online Consumer

Empirical research on online consumer theory has been examined under diverse contexts over the years. Although researchers from a variety of business disciplines have made significant progress over the past few years, the scope of these studies is rather broad, the studies appear relatively fragmented and no unifying theoretical framework is found in this area. In view of this, this study attempts to provide an exhaustive review of prior theoretical literature and to provide an integrative model of online consumer behavior. This framework not only provides us with a cohesive view of online consumer behavior, but also serves as a salient guideline for researchers in this area. The paper is concluded with a research agenda for future studies.

Legal Theory for Legal Empiricists

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (02) ◽  
pp. 292-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanoch Dagan ◽  
Roy Kreitner ◽  
Tamar Kricheli-Katz
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Intellectual Labor ◽  
The Law ◽  
Widespread View ◽  
The Way

There is a widespread view that one does either theory or empirical work, and that theory and empiricism represent distant concerns, opposing worldviews, and perhaps distinct mentalities or personalities. This prevalent view has deep roots and is also the result of pragmatic and understandable tendencies toward division of intellectual labor. Against this view, this essay suggests that the relations between theory and empirical study ought to be understood as more intimate and that making legal theory an explicit focus can improve empirical scholarship. We pursue this claim by articulating a basis for legal theory and by showing how that basis illuminates both the application and design of empirical research on law. Legal theory, we argue, follows jurisprudence in interrogating the law as a set of coercive normative institutions. The upshot of this approach is a recognition that an interdisciplinary analysis of law must rely on both a theory (explicit or implicit) of the way law's power and its normativity align and an account of the way in which this discursive cohabitation manifests itself institutionally. We thus argue that legal theory is necessary in order to draw fruitfully on empirical research and further claim that legal theory provides guidance both for setting up an empirical research agenda on law and for designing research into specific topics.

In Need of Meta-Governance: Business Networks of Transnational Governance

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian R Thauer
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Business And Human Rights ◽  
Governance Networks

This article discusses empirical research in political science on the topics of business and human rights, and transnational governance networks. It argues that transnational governance networks confront norm clashes and power conflicts, which undermine their effectiveness and legitimacy. Transnational governance as a concept and approach to ordering is therefore in need of meta-governance, by which the article understands secondary rules and procedures – that is, institutional mechanisms that allow for the mitigation and resolution of these conflicts. However, the extent to which such meta-governance currently exists, its effectiveness, and the rules and procedures that may legitimately define meta-governance and its actors are still unknown. This article calls for a research agenda to investigate these unknowns, which combines normative-legal and empirical-political science perspectives on the nature, form, legitimacy and effects of meta-governance.

Prayer and Health: Conceptual Issues, Research Review, and Research Agenda

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Mccullough
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Research Review ◽  
The Relationship

The theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between prayer and health is critically reviewed. Although empirical research partially confirms that prayer promotes a variety of health outcomes, the empirical literature is characterized by weak methodologies that may contribute to the inconsistency of some findings. Recommendations are made for improving the quality of prayer and health research. An agenda for further empirical investigation of the relationship between prayer and health is proposed.

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