TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bohn, Nicolai
A1  - Kundisch, Dennis
T1  - What are we talking about when we talk about technology pivots?
BT  - a Delphi study
JF  - Information & management
N2  - Technology pivots were designed to help digital startups make adjustments to the technology underpinning their products and services. While academia and the media make liberal use of the term "technology pivot," they rarely align themselves to Ries' foundational conceptualization. Recent research suggests that a more granulated conceptualization of technology pivots is required. To scientifically derive a comprehensive conceptualization, we conduct a Delphi study with a panel of 38 experts drawn from academia and practice to explore their understanding of "technology pivots." Our study thus makes an important contribution to advance the seminal work by Ries on technology pivots.
KW  - digital startup
KW  - lean startup approach
KW  - technology pivot
KW  - conceptualization
KW  - Delphi study
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2020.103319
SN  - 0378-7206
SN  - 1872-7530
VL  - 57
IS  - 6
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Giebler, Heiko
A1  - Ruth, Saskia P.
A1  - Tanneberg, Dag
T1  - Why choice matters
BT  - revisiting and comparing measures of democracy
T2  - Politics and Governance
N2  - Measures of democracy are in high demand. Scientific and public audiences use them to describe political realities and to substantiate causal claims about those realities. This introduction to the thematic issue reviews the history of democracy measurement since the 1950s. It identifies four development phases of the field, which are characterized by three recurrent topics of debate: (1) what is democracy, (2) what is a good measure of democracy, and (3) do our measurements of democracy register real-world developments? As the answers to those questions have been changing over time, the field of democracy measurement has adapted and reached higher levels of theoretical and methodological sophistication. In effect, the challenges facing contemporary social scientists are not only limited to the challenge of constructing a sound index of democracy. Today, they also need a profound understanding of the differences between various measures of democracy and their implications for empirical applications. The introduction outlines how the contributions to this thematic issue help scholars cope with the recurrent issues of conceptualization, measurement, and application, and concludes by identifying avenues for future research.
KW  - application
KW  - conceptualization
KW  - democracy
KW  - democratic quality
KW  - measurement
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i1.1428
SN  - 2183-2463
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - Cogitatio Press
CY  - Lisbon
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Giebler, Heiko
A1  - Ruth, Saskia P.
A1  - Tanneberg, Dag
T1  - Why choice matters
BT  - revisiting and comparing measures of democracy
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Measures of democracy are in high demand. Scientific and public audiences use them to describe political realities and to substantiate causal claims about those realities. This introduction to the thematic issue reviews the history of democracy measurement since the 1950s. It identifies four development phases of the field, which are characterized by three recurrent topics of debate: (1) what is democracy, (2) what is a good measure of democracy, and (3) do our measurements of democracy register real-world developments? As the answers to those questions have been changing over time, the field of democracy measurement has adapted and reached higher levels of theoretical and methodological sophistication. In effect, the challenges facing contemporary social scientists are not only limited to the challenge of constructing a sound index of democracy. Today, they also need a profound understanding of the differences between various measures of democracy and their implications for empirical applications. The introduction outlines how the contributions to this thematic issue help scholars cope with the recurrent issues of conceptualization, measurement, and application, and concludes by identifying avenues for future research.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 104 
KW  - application
KW  - conceptualization
KW  - democracy
KW  - democratic quality
KW  - measurement
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-427891
SN  - 1867-5808
IS  - 104
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wittenberg, Eva
A1  - Snedeker, Jesse
T1  - It takes two to kiss, but does it take three to give a kiss? Categorization based on thematic roles
JF  - Language, cognition and neuroscience
KW  - events
KW  - argument structure
KW  - conceptualization
KW  - sorting task
KW  - syntax
KW  - semantics
KW  - light-verb constructions
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2013.831918
SN  - 2327-3798
SN  - 2327-3801
VL  - 29
IS  - 5
SP  - 635
EP  - 641
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -