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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Retroduction"”.
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A model of compelled nonuse of information
… of his contributions to philosophical inquiry, retroduction, sometimes referred to as abduction. To study nonuse of information through retroduction, I created a fivestep "definition heuristic," based on the writings of Spradley and McCurdy. I then created a nine-step "retroduction heuristic" …
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'As you were': Military-bureaucratic control and the employment relationship in the British armed forces
… study adopts a critical realist philosophy and retroduction to examine how the military employment relationship is regulated, experienced and contested, with particular reference to discipline and voice. It also compares military service with civilian employment, noting that the two, once …
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The information behaviour of Nigerian digital entrepreneurs: idea generation in start-up businesses.
… (codes) identified in the empirical data, and retroduction to identify the necessary contextual conditions for a particular causal mechanism to take effect and result in the observed empirical trends. Results show several societal and personal factors play a role in shaping the information …
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Autonomy in Practice: Conceptualization, Construction, and Psychometric Evaluation of an Empirical Instrument
… of autonomy in practice through a process of retroduction and triangulation. In the context of ongoing rapid change and increasing competition in the health care delivery arena there is valid reason for nursing and other health professions to be concerned with their autonomous practice status. …
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Distorting the Reality of Climate Change: Anti-Reflexive Narratives of Conservative Think Tanks in Canadian Newspapers
… were subjected to the processes of abduction and retroduction to explain underlying mechanisms. Abduction primarily relied on Beck’s (1994) theory of reflexive modernization, McCright and Dunlap’s (2010) anti-reflexivity thesis, Bourdieu’s (1998) practice theory, and Freudenburg’s (2005) double …
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“Canvassing the Context”: An exploration of the context of the Holding Hands Parenting Programme using principles of Realist Evaluation.
… a realist analytical process culminating in retroduction (Crinson, 2001) and six overarching themes were developed: (i) forward thinking; (ii) one size fits; (iii) collaboration; (iv) involvement; (v) barriers and (vi) perceptions and expectations. Network patterns (or configurations) were …
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The dynamic processes of the adoption and use of cloud computing by small, medium enterprises in South Africa
… multi-method strategy (induction, abduction and retroduction) was adopted, with three research strategies used to interrogate the phenomenon. Participatory observations and ethnographic interviews were applied research methods. Findings indicated that there may be a limited view of the challenges …
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Low-technology innovation in a sectoral system:a critical realist perspective
… of north-west Pakistan, this research applies retroduction to explain causal mechanisms by understanding events, objects/entities, necessary and contingent relations and causal powers. Following case study approach a multiple (two) case design (embedded type 4) having two cases/sectors, …
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The interplay between structure and agency: How academic development programme students 'make their way' through their undergraduate studies in engineering
… Following an analytical process of retroduction, the study suggests that the ADP, although it facilitated students' entry into the university, simultaneously positioned them within a situational logic of constraining contradiction and as such exacerbated their experiences of …
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An empirical analysis and stochastic modelling of aggregate demand behaviour in a spare parts inventory system
… incorporated the law verifying process know as 'retroduction' after work and discussions of Uji Ijiri and Herbert Simon (1977); and to a lesser extent we utilised simulation for validation and verification of the derived models. From the proven log normality of demand volumes and usage values we …
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Exploring the obesogenic environment: understanding the health impact of contemporary living.
… CR's modes of inference - namely abduction and retroduction - were then applied in order to understand the underlying preconditions of what reality must be like for obesity to occur. The research additionally attempted to identify demi-regularities (i.e. semi-predictable patterns) among …
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Generative mechanisms of IT-enabled organisational performance in resource-constrained Emergency Medical Services organisations in South Africa
… single case study, the study used abduction and retroduction techniques to explicate the mechanisms of IT-enabled organisational performance. Findings: Findings indicate that the IT-enabled organisational performance mechanisms can be categorised into two types of generative mechanisms. These are …
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Career conversations for the development of student career competencies: a study in Portuguese secondary schools
… stages of data analysis used the principles of retroduction and abduction of the realist evaluation framework. The first research question was addressed by first, at a systemic level, comparing headteachers perceptions of career guidance provision at their school with national policy intentions …