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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Analytical Framework and Hypotheses
Author : Karoline Steinbacher
Published in: Exporting the Energiewende
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
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Rather than following a deductive research agenda, where hypotheses from the literature are tested, an iterative, abductive approach was adopted. This means that a general theoretical framework and guiding hypotheses were developed prior to field research, but these were updated and fine-tuned to reflect empirical knowledge gained (Héritier 2008: 65, Reichertz 2007, Reichertz 2010). The choice of an iterative approach – going back and forth between the theoretical framework and data – was guided by several considerations.