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Actor-network theory (ANT) is a philosophical approach to the social sciences that encourages researchers to analyse events as the outcomes of interacting and unstable networks of associations. It has attracted considerable attention in the social sciences since the late 1980s and influenced many empirical researchers, particularly in the fields of science and technology studies and more recently in social studies of finance. Although it is neither a research method nor a methodology, like other broadly philosophical approaches to the social sciences, it does have implications for how researchers should approach social research. This entry briefly outlines some of the key features of ANT and the orientation to research that it encourages, but its primary focus is to present the strengths and weaknesses of ANT, and ...

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Herbert Blumer (1900-1987) was a central figure in what has come to be labelled the Chicago School of Sociology. He significantly shaped its later phase of development in theoretical and methodological terms, and, more generally, had an important impact on American sociology. He is probably best known for his invention of the term symbolic interactionism and his advocacy of this sociological perspective, which is based on the ideas of the pragmatist philosophers George Herbert Mead and John Dewey, and the sociologists Charles H. Cooley and William I. Thomas. However, he was also an influential critic of the growing dominance of statistical method in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, championing the role of the kind of "case study" that had been a major element of earlier ...

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Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) originated in George Kelly's clinical psychology practice in the mid-20th century and has since given rise to a number of techniques for enabling people to gain insight into their own and others' thinking. The most widely known of these is the repertory grid, which has been successfully adapted and applied in a variety of research contexts. But it has principally been used as a quantitative, statistical technique. However, there is a range of other innovative methods that have been devised by PCP practitioners and researchers which may be useful for qualitative work, but these are still relatively unfamiliar to academic researchers. This entry examines a number of research methods arising from PCP, placing these within the theoretical and philosophical landscape. It argues that PCP methods provide opportunities to extend and enrich the predominant methods currently used by qualitative researchers and illustrates them through examples from actual research.

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Das Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn veröffentlicht hiermit das vierzehnte Jahrbuch zur Mittelstandsforschung. Es bietet wissenschaftliche Aufsätze und Expertisen zum Thema Mittelstand. Der Band enthält folgende Beiträge: • Das Für und Wider der materiellen Beteiligung der Mitarbeiter am Erfolg und Kapital von Unternehmen von Rosemarie Kay • Erfolgsunternehmen in der Industrie - Analyse von Einflussfaktoren auf Grundlage des BDI-Mittelstandspanels von Claus Adenäuer • EDV-gestützte Methoden des Wissensmanagements in der Personalpolitik kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen von Frank Maaß • 2. Chance? Hürden und Hemmnisse bei der Umsetzung von Restarts von Peter Kranzusch und Rosemarie Kay.

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