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Theory Homework

This is a collaborative exercise to be carried out by teams. The teams are (a) the students in DSIS, and (b) the students in Marketing.

Start with an observed correlation or relationship between variables (you do not have to prove they are correlated).

Now, using the methods and criteria of Lave and March (1975), generate a good theory. Show that it is generative by drawing some interesting, testable, implications from it.

Now develop an equally good alternative theory that explains the original observation. Draw testable implications from that as well.

Finally, design a study that will enable you to test the two theories and rule one of them out.

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References

Lave, Charles A., and James G. March. 1993(1975). An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences. New York: University Press of America.
- Chap. 2 [pdf] and Chap. 3 [pdf]

 

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