Theory building for hypothesis specification in organizational studies / Badrinarayan Shankar Pawar
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TextPublication details: New Delhi : Response Books, 2009Description: xviii, 133 p. 22 cmISBN: - 9788132102441
- 302.3501 PAW
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Theory Building for Hypothesis Specification in Organizational Studies focuses on developing a cogent theory that leads to the specification of a hypothesis that can be taken up for subsequent empirical examination. The book is a concise and holistic guide to theory building for such hypothesis specification. It breaks down the process of theory building into its component steps and explains each of them, starting with formative concepts of theory, units of theory, principles and processes of theory, to explaining theory building for hypothesis specification in organizational studies. The key areas covered in the book are: introduction to theory building; theory in the context of reality, knowledge, science and research; role of theory in research; units of theory; process and practice of theory building; observations and examples from published research; etc.
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