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A comprehensive and accessible guide to learning and successfully
applying QCA Social phenomena can rarely be attributed to single
causes-instead, they typically stem from a myriad of interwoven
factors that are often difficult to untangle. Drawing on set theory
and the language of necessary and sufficient conditions,
qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is ideally suited to
capturing this causal complexity. A case-based research method, QCA
regards cases as combinations of conditions and compares the
conditions of each case in a structured way to identify the
necessary and sufficient conditions for an outcome. Qualitative
Comparative Analysis: An Introduction to Research Design and
Application is a comprehensive guide to QCA. As QCA becomes
increasingly popular across the social sciences, this textbook
teaches students, scholars, and self-learners the fundamentals of
the method, research design, interpretation of results, and how to
communicate findings. Following an ideal typical research cycle,
the book's ten chapters cover the methodological basis and
analytical routine of QCA, as well as matters of research design,
causation and causal complexity, QCA variants, and the method's
reception in the social sciences. A comprehensive glossary helps to
clarify the meaning of frequently used terms. The book is
complemented by an accessible online R manual to help new users to
practice QCA's analytical steps on sample data and then implement
with their own findings. This hands-on textbook is an essential
resource for students and researchers looking for a complete and
up-to-date introduction to QCA.
This book deals with the phonological event of final devoicing in a
theoretical framework based on principles and parameters rather
than rules. It refers to data coming almost exclusively from German
(native and non-native items). The first chapter presents the 'raw
facts', providing an outline of the sort of alternations and
distributional restrictions on voicing to be accounted for.
Previous treatments of final devoicing in German are discussed and
evaluated in the second chapter. Chapters 3 and 4 provide an
analysis of final devoicing in German couched in the framework of
Government Phonology (GP), a phonological theory operating with
principles and parameters. Some of the central tenets of GP are
introduced at the beginning of chapter 3, and additional concepts
of the theory are explained as they become relevant to the
discussion of final devoicing. The author argues that final
devoicing should be interpreted as a phonological weakening process
involving the withdrawal of autosegmental licensing from the
laryngeal element L (which represents voicing in obstruents). This
occurs in phonologically 'weak' environments, where, due to clearly
definable prosodic conditions, only reduced autosegmental licensing
potential is available. This analysis, developed with reference to
the prestige variety of German (Hochlautung), is then extended to
Northern Standard German, and the phonological differences between
the two dialects are identified. In the final chapter, the author
investigates whether final devoicing results in phonological
neutralisation, as is often assumed in the literature. She observes
that the GP account developed in chapters 3 and 4 is incompatible
with this traditional view. This is desirable, since, among other
things, the conflict between earlier phonological analyses and
experimental studies of final devoicing can now be resolved.
"Pulling up the Ladder" discusses how Wittgenstein's early
philosophy became widely known largely through the efforts of
Russell and other empirically-minded British philosophers, and to a
lesser extent, the scientifically-oriented German-speaking
philosophers of the Vienna Circle. However, Wittgenstein's primary
philosophical concerns arose in a far different context, and
failure to grasp this has led to many misunderstandings of the
"Tractatus". From Brockhaus' investigation of that context and its
problems emerges this new interpretation of Wittgenstein's early
thought, which also affords fresh insights into the later
Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein's first philosophy was a Schopenhauerian
neo-Kantianism, and although he soon rejected much of the substance
of Schopenhauer's work, his problems remained closely connected
with Schopenhauer's view of the world and man's relation to it.
Wittgenstein's early philosophy is a departure from Schopenhauer -
a rigorously purified form, so to speak, of Schopenhauer's "World
as Will and Representation". In "Pulling up the Ladder", Brockhaus
explains Schopenhauer's system of the world as Will and
Representation, then proceeds to investigate Frege's realism and
Hertz's conventionalistic philosophy of science - two of the
elements which fuelled Wittgenstein's purification of Schopenhauer.
Brockhaus analyzes the relations between the "Tractatus" and
Russell's treatment of Incomplete Symbols and Logical Types. He
investigates two Schopenhauerian issues which present difficulties
for the Wittgensteinian world-view: the principles of mechanics and
the propositional attitudes which bring the ego into the world. The
final chapters examine the metaphysical ego and its relaxation to
value, employing Wittgenstein's metaphor of "my world", since "my
world" is permeated by the metaphysical ego, the Schopenhauerian
World as Will emerges anew, albeit in a curiously ineffable form.
This series provides an annual examination of the major current
research, theoretical and methodological efforts in the field of
entrepreneurship and its related disciplines of small business,
family business and population ecology, as well as firm growth and
emergence research.
A comprehensive and accessible guide to learning and successfully
applying QCA Social phenomena can rarely be attributed to single
causes-instead, they typically stem from a myriad of interwoven
factors that are often difficult to untangle. Drawing on set theory
and the language of necessary and sufficient conditions,
qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is ideally suited to
capturing this causal complexity. A case-based research method, QCA
regards cases as combinations of conditions and compares the
conditions of each case in a structured way to identify the
necessary and sufficient conditions for an outcome. Qualitative
Comparative Analysis: An Introduction to Research Design and
Application is a comprehensive guide to QCA. As QCA becomes
increasingly popular across the social sciences, this textbook
teaches students, scholars, and self-learners the fundamentals of
the method, research design, interpretation of results, and how to
communicate findings. Following an ideal typical research cycle,
the book's ten chapters cover the methodological basis and
analytical routine of QCA, as well as matters of research design,
causation and causal complexity, QCA variants, and the method's
reception in the social sciences. A comprehensive glossary helps to
clarify the meaning of frequently used terms. The book is
complemented by an accessible online R manual to help new users to
practice QCA's analytical steps on sample data and then implement
with their own findings. This hands-on textbook is an essential
resource for students and researchers looking for a complete and
up-to-date introduction to QCA.
This is the first volume in a series which explores current
research, and theoretical and methodological efforts in the field
of entrepreneurship, and its related disciplines of small business,
family business, and population ecology. The book considers various
demographic issues.
Produktivitat stellt eine der zentralen Herausforderungen des
Dienstleistungsmanagements dar. Dabei gilt es, nicht nur bewahrte
Konzepte und Methoden aus dem Sachguterbereich an die spezifischen
Gegebenheiten des Dienstleistungssektors anzupassen. Es ist
vielmehr auch eine vertiefte Diskussion notwendig, die sich
aufgrund der charakteristischen Merkmale von Dienstleistungen auf
neue Methoden und Fragestellungen fokussiert. Vor diesem
Hintergrund wurden dem Thema Dienstleistungsproduktivitat zwei
Sammelbande gewidmet, in denen profilierte Wissenschaftler und
Vertreter der Praxis in insgesamt 38 Beitragen zeigen, was genau
unter Dienstleistungsproduktivitat zu verstehen ist und wie
Dienstleistungsproduktivitat sichergestellt werden kann.
In Band 1 diskutieren Experten aus den Bereichen Marketing,
Informatik und Personal die Dienstleistungsproduktivitat aus Sicht
des Managements, der Prozessgestaltung sowie der Kunden.
Der Autor leitet aus der Sicht der Unternehmung einen
Orientierungsrahmen fur Kooperationen mit gesellschaftlichen
Anspruchsgruppen ab. Den Schwerpunkt bilden die konkreten
Moglichkeiten und Grenzen dieser Strategievariante sowie die Themen
und Partner fur gesellschaftliche Kooperationen."
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