Explanations
Type of explanation that explains a single situation, or event in idiosyncratic detail (not generalizable).
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is idiographic?
b) What is nomathetic?
c) What is the singulatrity?
What is idiographic?
Name 1 of any of the 4 main building blocks of a theory.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is Constructs?
b) What is Propositions?
c) What is the Foundation?
What is either a) Constructs, b) Propositions, c) Logic, or d) Boundary conditions/assumptions.
1 the 4 main approaches that researchers use to build a theory.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is Grounded theory building based on empirical observation?
b) Extend or modify existing theories to explain a new context?
c) What is Apply existing theories in entirely new contexts by drawing upon the structural similarities between the two contexts (reasoning by analogy)?
What is either a) Grounded theory building based on empirical observation, b) Bottom-up conceptual analysis, c) Extend or modify existing theories to explain a new context, or d) Apply existing theories in entirely new contexts by drawing upon the structural similarities between the two contexts (reasoning by analogy).
Most often benefits from mixed-mode design.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is data collection?
b) What is a priori?
c) What is Phlogiston?
What is data collection?
A comprehensive plan for data collection in an empirical project must specify one of these 3 processes.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is data collection process (research design)?
b) What is Sampling process?
c) What is Instrument development process?
What is either 1. Data collection process (research design), 2. Instrument development process, or 3. Sampling process.
Class of situations or events, rather than a single situation, or event (generalizable with few explanatory details, or economical in explanation).
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is confusion matrix?
b) What is nomathetic?
c) What is plural, or more than one?
What is nomothetic?
An attribute of this theory involves the concept of cause and effect relationships (if X, then Y)
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is Propositions?
b) What is Prepositions?
c) What is Suppositions?
What is Propositions?
Grounded theory building based on empirical observation.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is inductively based on observed patterns of events or behaviors?
b) What is deductively based on observed patterns of events or behaviors?
c) What is retroductively based on observed patterns of events or behaviors?
What theory is inductively based on observed patterns of events or behaviors?
Referred to as the Classic theory in organizational economics literature.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) Agency theory
b) Not Agency theory
c) Classical theory
What is Agency theory (principle agent theory)?
Any 1 of the 4 key attributes of research design.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is Internal validity (causality)?
b) What is Construct validity?
c) What is Statistical conclusion validity?
What is either 1. Internal validity (causality), 2. External validity, 3. Construct validity, or 4. Statistical conclusion validity?
A class of simplified explanations of complex reality (may limit field of vision ie impose blinders)?
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is an illusion?
b) What is inability to see far?
c) What is a weaknesses?
What is weaknesses?
An attribute of this theory presents the 'why' of theories.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is Logic?
b) What is Norms?
c) What is Evidence?
What is Logic?
This theory identifies different sets of predictors relevant to the phenomenon of interest.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is Bottom-up conceptual analysis?
b) What is Theory of predictions?
c) What is Top-down conceptual analysis?
What is Bottom-up conceptual analysis?
Any 1 of the 2+1 pillars of the Scientific Theory
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is Logic (theory)?
b) What is evidence (observations)?
c) What is normative (value)
a) What is Logic (theory)? or
b) What is evidence (observations)? or
c) What is normative (value)
Any 1 of the 2 main categories of research designs.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is Positivist?
b) What is Interpretive?
c) What is Reductionist?
What is positivist, or interpretive?
Name this apparent type of weakness in the following comic strip.
What is displaying a simplified explanation of complex reality, or may limit field of vision (impose blinders)?
An attribute this theory examines the who, when, and where.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is Boundary conditions/assumptions?
b) What is interrogation methods?
c) What is line of questioning?
What is Boundary conditions/assumptions?
This theory extends individual learning to explain organizational learning. Also an efficient way of building new theories by building on existing theories.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is Extend or modify existing theories to explain a new context?
b) What are footnotes?
c) What is APA, or MLA format?
What is Extend or modify existing theories to explain a new context?
An attribute of this theory includes Communications literature theory, which explains how innovations are adopted within a population of potential adopters.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is IDT?
b) What is ICU?
c) What is IOU?
What is Innovation diffusion theory [IDT]?
The positivist category of research design is meant for theory testing, while the this category is meant for theory building.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is pre-interpretive?
b) What is interpretive?
c) What is anti-interpretive?
What is Interpretive?
1 of any of the 4 main attributes of a good theory?
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is Logical Consistency?
b) What is Explanatory Power?
c) What is evidence?
What is either a) Logical Consistency, b) Explanatory Power, c) Falsifiability, or d) Parsimony?
Theories are based on Logic, while Evidence is based on this.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What are Observations?
b) What are Norms?
c) What are Values?
What are Observations?
This theory uses a predefined framework, and it's phenomenon may be biased based on the researchers prior knowledge of the phenomenon being studied.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is Bottom-up conceptual analysis?
b) What is a priori?
c) What is Phlogiston?
What is Bottom-up conceptual analysis?
A sub-element of Communication channels (part of Communications literature theory) and one of the 3 temporal processes (S-shaped curve).
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is Early adopters?
b) What is mainstream?
c) What is mass saturation?
What is either 1. Early adopters, 2. Mainstream, or 3. Mass saturation
Any 1 of the 7 popular research designs.
Pick one of 3 potential question phrases below:
a) What is Field Surveys?
b) What is Ethnography?
c) What is Multiple case design?
What is either:
1. Experimental studies, 2. Field surveys, 3. Secondary data analysis, 4. Case research, 5. Multiple case design, 6. Action research, or 7. Ethnography.