"We always have a beer after the meeting": How norms, customs, conventions, and like explain behavior
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Explanations in terms of norms, customs, convention, culture and the like are certainly very common ways of accounting for human behavior. A study explores how these ubiquitous but not altogether understood concepts really explain behavior, how they are related, how they differ, and what they contrast with.
Publication Name: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-3931
Year: 2006
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The world is generating data at an incredible rate and is estimated that more data was created in the last 50 years than in all of previous human history. The study suggests that organizations must make the conscious decision to properly manage their data.
Publication Name: Knowledge Technology & Policy
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0897-1986
Year: 2004
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Eliciting experts context knowledge with theory-based experiential questionnaires
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The usefulness of theory-based experiential questionnaires for the evaluation of the context knowledge of experts on human behavior is examined.
Publication Name: Behavioral Research in Accounting
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 1050-4753
Year: 2005
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