Inductive System Diagrams: An Empirically Based Theory Generation Technique (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Social scientists, over the past sixty years, have developed methodologies to generate theory through an inductive process based on the intensive analysis of a small number of data sources. However, a difficulty associated with these, and most styles of qualitative theory development, is conveying credibility. Inductive System Diagrams combine aspects of Grounded Theory methods and System Dynamics to generate theory with verifiable data, explicit inferences and testable predictions. Grounded theory approaches are used to develop the variables which have a great deal of explanatory power and are intimately tied to the data. The cause and effect relationships among these variables are then shown using causal-loop diagramming techniques from System Dynamics. This combination of grounded theory and causal-loop diagramming allows researchers to generate and communicate empirically based theories.

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