Theory Building in Applied Disciplines

Theory building in applied disciplines book two authors are from academic fields. Richard Swanson is a professor emeritus of organizational leadership, policy, and development at the University of Minnesota from the year 1979-2005, he worked from 2006-2009 as a research professor at the University of Texas. Know h Richard is running his practice, Swanson & associates, in Minnesota as a principal consultant for performance improvement. Thomas Chermack is an associate professor of organizational performance and change, specializing in scenario planning at Colorado state university. In addition to his position as an assistant professor, he established his practice in 2001 Chermack scenarios as president and founder.

Building a sound theory is the goal of this book. Theory building is purely an academic subject to support research in any academic arena. Researchers and Ph.D. students benefit from this book because the book provides a new approach to building a theory, a research agenda to test a theory and its validity, and two case examples of previously built theories in learning organizational theory and scenario planning theory. Architects in research and practice benefit from the presented idea of the importance of integrating theory and experience, building quality indicators for the design process, and the theory of team building. Engineers in management fields benefit from the assessment criteria used in the theory-building process in practice for project management risk assessment. The two strategies in building the theory presented in this book and the case example of scenario planning theory benefit planners and strategic planners in professional practice. Statisticians benefit from the introduced data analysis methods and every method and its proper application. For example, a T-test is used if the research inquiry uses a pretest/posttest design.

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