Understanding the Psychology Behind Panic Buying: A Grounded Theory Approach

Articles Grounded Theory: a Promising Approach to Conceptualization in Psychology?

There is a growing body of opinion that psychology suffers from an elaborate research technology that overemphasizes theory verification and impairs thinking and discovery. Grounded theory is advanced as an approach to research that can address this crisis of method in psychology. The grounded approach is described and illustrated in terms of its application to psychotherapy process research. T...

Towards Understanding Transformational Leadership in India: a Grounded Theory Approach

Indian industry, which is witnessing an extraordinary rate of change. A quick look at the latest statistics from the Indian industry helps us understand this point better. Today, there is widespread recognition, both at home and abroad, that India is one of the fastest growing economies of the world (Lahiri, 2005). For the first time in history, India’s economic prowess became an issue in the U...

Institutionalism in Strategic Structural Plans (A Grounded Theory Approach)

Nowadays, planning is no longer considered merely a scientific and technical career nor agovernment responsibity. It rather functions as a bridge connecting the planners to institutional changes. In otherwords, the planning theory does not develop in a social, economic and political vacuum, but is formulated byindividuals in social situations with the aim of clarifying the enviroment recommendi...

Stock Price Momentum Modeling: A Grounded Theory Approach

Recently, understanding the anomalies in financial markets have severely chal-lenged the efficient market hypothesis (EMH). The price momentum is one of the anomalies described as the unexplained short-term return by Fama and French (1996). The present research strives for modeling the price momentum of winner stock in the Iranian capital market. The grounded theory method was used to explain t...

Understanding the psychology behind performance - enhancement by doping