Methodological Approaches to Study “Competitiveness” Notion

A comparative study of methodological approaches to reviewing literature

s and look at what it was talking about. 4.2.2 Nature of the topic A second factor that affected the way project teams went about their reviews was their views on the nature of the topic. In particular, what aspects of the Academy-identified topics the teams themselves thought were worth exploring and in what ways . The Reflective practices review, for example, sought to adopt an approach that ...

Methodological approaches in the study of linguistic relativity

Empirical research on linguistic relativity faces three methodological challenges. First, it must identify and characterize a language contrast where the semantic structures of different languages produce distinct referential interpretations. Second, on the basis of those language patterns it must articulate specific cognitive entailments or predictions and then assess for evidence of their pre...

Comparative Personality Research: Methodological Approaches

In the broadest sense, personality refers to stable inter-individual variability in behavioural organisation within a particular population. Researching personality in human as well as nonhuman species provides unique possibilities for comparisons across species with different phylogenies, ecologies and social systems. It also allows insights into mechanisms and processes of the evolution of po...

Aerospace Competitiveness Study

Methodological Approaches to the Question of the Commons

In this essay we argue that the key barriers to interdisciplinary work between economists and anthropologists are differences of methodology and epistemology -in what the two disciplines consider important to explain, and how they evaluate the criteria for a good explanation. The essay is an introduction to three papers, on economics, anthropology, and the question of the commons, that illustra...