Special Issue: Why Ethically Reflect on Empirical Studies in Empirical Ethics? Case Studies and Commentaries

Special Issue for Eint on Empirical Studies of Innovation in the Knowledge Driven Economy

This introduction to a special issue of EINT surveys a collection of ten papers that study various aspects of innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue illustrates the value of these surveys...

Empirical Studies In Discourse

Computational theories of discourse are concerned with the context-based interpretation or generation of discourse phenomena in text and dialogue. In the past, research in this area focused on specifying the mechanisms underlying particular discourse phenomena; the models proposed were often motivated by a few constructed examples. While this approach led to many theoretical advances, models de...

Recent Empirical Studies

A review of 45 studies clearly demonstrated that sexually abused children had more symptoms than nonabused children, with abuse accounting for 15-45% of the variance. Fears, posttraumatic stress disorder, behavior problems, sexualized behaviors, and poor self-esteem occurred most frequently among a long list of symptoms noted, but no one symptom characterized a majority of sexually abused child...

Empirical Studies in Information Sharing

This chapter provides a non-technical literature survey of empirical studies in information sharing during the past two decades. We categorize by types of information that can be shared in a supply chain environment, such as demand, forecasts, inventory status, and product development. We encourage more empirical research to be done to further advance knowledge in this field.

Some Empirical Studies in Epidemiology