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Flashcards by Nikolas Bosin, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Nikolas Bosin
about 5 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What is "Evidence-based Management"? | --> Managers have high risk jobs --> Evidence helps them to make right choices --> always ask for evidence if decisions must be made |
| What are the 4 stages of EBM? (Graphic) |
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| What is a proposition? | One casual statement linking two constructs |
| What is theory? | - Aggregate of propositions - Testable through hypotheses - Based on assumptions |
| What is theory good for? | - Helps to understand things - Allows for predictions in the future |
| How does theory advance? | via scientific methods |
| What are the three core principles of empirical research? | - Empiricism (data must be observable) - Objectivity (data must be testable) - Control (data must be collected without bias) |
| Where does a theory come from? | Deduction (from other theories) and Induction (from empirism) |
| According to Karl Popper, what is the most important characteristic of a theory? | Falsifiability (which theory is the easiest to test) |
| What are the three characteristics that make theory good? | - Falsifiability - Accuracy - Parsimony (fewer assumptions necessary) |
| How does the value chain of empirical research look like? | - State of current research - Research design - Data collection - Data analysis - Publication |
| What are the general parts of any academic paper? | - Abstract - Introduction - Theory - Data & Methods - Findings - Conclusion |
| Layout of any acdemic paper introduction | 1. Who do you want to talk to? 2. What is the best existing explanation to the question you will be asking? 3. What are you promising? 4. What will you argue? 5. What do you do? (data & methods) 6. What do you find? 7. What does it mean? |
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