From explanation of the past to prediction of the future: A comparative and predictive research design in the Social Sciences
Business and Psychology research (and the Social Sciences, in general) is heavily biased toward explaining the past. The holy grail in such explanation-oriented research is to develop causal theory, and to test this theory with historical data against a null no-effect benchmark. We seek to expand th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2022-01-01
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| Series: | Social Sciences and Humanities Open |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291122000237 |