The role of grounded theory in developing economic theory

Journal of Economic Methodology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 213-234

  Finch, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorizing Information; Grounded Theory; Industrial Organization; Inference; Qualitative Research; Theoretical Development

Indexed keywords

EID: 85066229234     PISSN: 1350178X     EISSN: 14699427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501780210137119     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Abbou, A. (1992) 'What do cases do? Some notes on activity in sociological analysis'. in C.C. Ragin and H.S. Becker (eds). What is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: pp. 53-82.
2. Alchian, A.A. (1950) 'Uncertainty, evolution and economic theory'. Journal of Political Economy 58: 211-21.
3. Andrews, P.W.S. (1949) Manufacturing Business. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd.
4. Andrews, P.W.S. (1964) On Competition in Economic Theory, London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd.
5. Andrews, P.W.S. (1993) 'A reconsideration of the theory of the individual business', in F.S. Lee. and P.E. Earl (eds) The Economics of Competitive Enterprise, Selected Essays of P.W.S. Andrews, Aldershot: Edward Elgar: pp. 73-111 (first published in 1949 in Oxford Economic Papers, 1: 54-89).
6. Andrews, P.W.S. and Brunner, E. (1975) Studies in Pricing. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan.
7. Boisot, M.H. (1995) Information Space, A Frameworkf or Learnign in Organisations, Institutions and Culture. London: Routledge.
8. Boulier, B.L. and Goldfarb, R.S. (1998) On the use and nonuse of surveys in economies'. Journal of Economic Methodology 5: 1-21.
9. Cowan, R., David, P.A. and Foray, D. (2000) 'The explicit economics of knowledge codification and tacitness'. Industrial and Corporate Change 9: 211-53.
10. Cyert, R.M. and March, J.G. (1992) A Behavioral Theory of the Firm. 2nd edn. Oxford: Blackwell.
11. Finch, J.H. (1997) ' "Verstehen", ideal types and situational analysis, and the problem of free will'. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 153: 734-47.
12. Finch, J.H. (1999) 'The methodological implications of post Marshallian economies'. in S.C. Dow and P.E. Earl (eds) Contingency, Complexity and the Theory of the Firm Essays in Honour of Brian Lousby, volume II. Aldershot: Edward Elgar: pp. 155-76.
13. Finch, J.H. (2002) 'Transferring exploration and production activities in the UK's upstream oil and gas industry: A capabilities perspective'. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 12: 55-81.
14. Glaser, B.G. (1978) Theoretical Sensitivity, Mill Valley CA: Sociology Press.
15. Glaser, B.G. and Strauss, A.L. (1967) The Discovery of Grounded Theory, Strategies for Qualitative Research. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company.
16. Harper, D. (1992) 'Small N's and community case studies', in C.C. Ragin and H.S. Becker (eds) What is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 139-58.
17. Hodgson, G.M. (1988) Economics and Institutions. A Manifesto for a Modern Institutional Economics, Cambridge: Polity Press.
18. Hodgson, G.M. (1998) 'The approach of institutional economies'. Journal of Economics Literature 36: 166-92.
19. Ingham, G. (1996) 'Some recent changes in the relationship between economics and sociology'. Cambridge Journal of Economics 20: 243-75.
20. Knight, F.H. (1921) Risk, Unvertainty and Profit, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
21. Lakatos, I. (1970) 'Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes', in I. Lakatos and A. Musgrave (eds) Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 91-196.
22. Langley, A. (1999) 'Strategies for theorizing from process data'. Academy of Management Review 24: 691-710.
23. Lawson, T. (1985) 'Uncertainty and economic analysis'. Economic Journal 95: 909-27.
24. Lawson, T. (1997) Economics and Reality. London: Routledge.
25. Layder, D. (1993) New Strategies in Social Research. London: Sage Publications.
26. Layder, D. (1998) Sociological Practice. Linking Theory and Social Research. London: Sage Publications.
27. Lee, F.S. (1998) The Pricing Foundation of Post Keynesian Price Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
28. Lee, F.S. and Downward. P. (1999) 'Re-testing Gardiner Means's evidence on administered prices'. Journal of Economic Issues 33: 861-86.
29. Machlup, F. (1946) 'Marginal analysis and empirical research'. American Economic Review 36: 519-54.
30. Machlup, F. (1967) 'Theories of the firm: marginalist. behavioural, managerial'. American Economic Review 57: 1-33.
31. March, J.G. and Simon, H.A. (1958) Organizations. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
32. McCloskey, D.M. (1986) The Rhetoric of Economics. Brighton: Wheaisheaf Books.
33. O'Brien, O.P. (1990) 'Marshall's industrial analysis'. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 37: 61-84.
34. O'Brien, O.P. (1992) 'Economists and data'. British Journal of Industrial Relations 30: 253-85.
35. Polanyi, M. (1962) Personal Knowledge. Towards a Post-Critical Philosoph v. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
36. Pratt, A.C. (1994) Uneven Re-production. Industry. Space and Society. Oxford: Pergamon.
37. Pratt, A.C. (1995) 'Putting critical realism to work: the practical implications for geographical research'. Progress in Human Geography 19: 61-74.
38. Reid, G.C. (1987) Theories of Industrial Organization. Oxford: Blackwell.
39. Reid, G.C. (1993) Small Business Enterprise. An Economic Analysis. London: Routledge.
40. Reid, G.C. (1996) 'Fast growing small entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital backers: an applied principal-agent analysis'. Small Business Economics 8: 235-48.
41. Reid, G.C. (1998) Venture Capital Investment: An Agency Approach. London and New York: Rout ledge.
42. Reid, G.C., Jacobsen, L.R. and Anderson, M.E. (1993) Profiles in Small Business. A Competitive Strategy Approach. London: Routledge.
43. Richardson, G.B. (1960) Information and Investment. A Study in the Working of the Competitive Economy. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
44. Scher, M.J. (1997) Japanese Inter firm Networks and their Main Banks. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan.
45. Schutz, A. (1964) Collected Papers II. Studies in Social Theory. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
46. Schutz, A. (1971) Collected Papers I. The Problem of Social Reality. 3rd edn. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
47. Senker, J. (1995) 'Tacit knowledge and models of innovation', Industrial and Corporate Change 4: 425-47.
48. Silverman, D. (1985) Qualitative Methodology and Sociology. Aldershot: Gower.
49. Simon, H.A. (1957) Administrative Behavior. 2nd edn. New York: Free Press.
50. Simpson, G.S., Finch, J.H. and Lamb, F.E. (1999) 'Risk, uncertainty, and relations between "strategic" and "within-strategy" decision-making in the upstream oil and gas industry'. Discussion Paper 99-01. Department of Economics. University of Aberdeen.
51. Strauss, A.L. (1987) Qualitative Analysis For Social Scientists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
52. Strauss, A.L. and Corbin, J. (1990) Basics of Qualitative Research, Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques, London: Sage Publications.
53. Strauss, A.L. and Corbin, J. (eds) (1997) Grounded Theory in Practice, London: Sage Publications.
54. Sutton, J. (1998) Technology and Market Structure. Cambridge MA. and London: MIT Press.
55. Wieviorka, M. (1992) 'Case studies: history or sociology?' in C.C. Ragin and H.S. Becker (eds) What is a Case? Exploring the Foudnations of Social Inquiry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: pp. 159-72.
56. Yin, R.K. (1984) Case Study Research, Design and Methods, revised edn. London: Sage Publications.