Time Matters: On Theory and Method

By A. Abbott. 2001

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Setting Cost in Optimal Matching to Uncover Contemporaneous Socio-Temporal Patterns (2010, unknown): “(Abbott 2001:172).”
The Place of Path Dependence in an Evolutionary Perspective on the Economic Landscape (2010, background): “This proliferation of path dependence ideas can itself be interpreted as a reflection of what some have referred to as an ‘historical turn’ in the social and cognate sciences (Abbott, 2001; Mahoney and Rueschemeyer , 2003: Howlett and Rayner, 2006).”
Digital Innovation Management: Reinventing Innovation Management Research in a Digital World (2017, methodology): “By using sequence analytic approaches, initially made popular by Bakeman and Gottman (1997) and Abbott (2001), this approach seeks to integrate the quantitative big data algorithmic analysis with qualitative narrative development.”
The dynamics of entrepreneurs’ networks in a transitioning economy: the case of Russia (2006, background): “the middle of the 1990s, may have affected the results (Abbot 2001 ).”
Complex Causal Relations and Case Study Methods: The Example of Path Dependence (2006, background): “Some have drawn on literature in economics, which focuses on functional 2See also Aminzade (1992) and Abbott (2001). considerations such as the efficiency of technologies or institutions in achieving public or private goods (see David 1985, 2001; Arthur 1989, 1994).3 Scholars have also drawn on…”
The destabilisation of existing regimes: Confronting a multi-dimensional framework with a case study of the British coal industry (1913-1967) (2013, background): “If there is any one idea central to historical ways of thinking, it is that the order of things makes a difference, that reality occurs not as time-bounded snapshots within which “causes” affect one another (. . .), but as stories, cascades of events” (Abbott, 2001: 227).”
Living Multiples: How Large-scale Scientific Data-mining Pursues Identity and Differences (2013, background): “(The problem of matrix sparsity vexes social scientists who do quantitative work too [see Abbott (2001) on the challenge of matrix sparsity]; in the domain of machine learning, where high-dimensional vector spaces pose many computational problems, this is known as ‘the curse of dimensionality’…”
Bridging the Gap between the Qualitative and Quantitative Worlds? A Retrospective and Prospective View on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (2003, background): “Actually, forany research andanymethod in the empirical social and behavioral sciences, the time dimension is a tricky issue (Bartolini 1993; Carpentier and Clignet 1998; Abbott 2001).”
Bringing history (back) into international business (2006, background): “For example, the sociologist Abbott (2001) has explored means of understanding networks of intertwined processes.”
The De-Standardization of the Life Course: Are Men and Women Equal? (2009, methodology): “In order to uncover models of trajectories , a distance matrix was constructed using optimal matching ( Abbott , 2001 ; Abbott & Hrycak , 1990 ; Abbott & Tsay , 2000 ; Needleman & Wunsch , 1970 ) .”
Understanding the historical turn in the policy sciences: A critique of stochastic, narrative, path dependency and process-sequencing models of policy-making over time (2006, background): “Sociologists and others at the onset of the 1990s turned to this same historical question and generated an excellent corpus of conceptual and methodological work on the subject (Somers, 1996; Abbott, 2001 ).”