research methods in european union studies

Research Methods in European Union Studies

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• Kennet Lynggaard (Associate Professor) 0 ,
• Ian Manners (Professor) 1 ,
• Karl Löfgren (Associate Professor) 2

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Table of contents(20 chapters)

Front matter, crossroads in european union studies.

• Kennet Lynggaard, Karl Löfgren, Ian Manners

Methodology in European Union Studies

• Ben Rosamond

European Union History

• Ann-Christina L. Knudsen

Micro-Analysis

European identity: conflict and cooperation.

• Angela Bourne

People and Social Groups in the European Union

• Michael Strange

Single Policy Study: Three Variations in Design

• Annica Kronsell, Ian Manners

Analysing European Discourses

• Amandine Crespy

Meso-Analysis

Studying agenda setting.

• Sebastiaan Princen

Studies of Bargaining in the European Union

• Sara Hagemann

Implementation Studies: Beyond a Legalistic Approach

Karl Löfgren

Analysing Networks

• Jenny M. Lewis, Sevasti Chatzopoulou

Visual Primes and European Union Identity: Designing Experimental Research

• Laura Cram, Stratos Patrikios

Europeanisation

• Theofanis Exadaktylos, Claudio M. Radaelli

Macro-Analysis

The european union in global politics: normative power and longitudinal interpretation.

Ian Manners

Research Methods in European Union Studies

• University of Copenhagen
• Roskilde University
• Te Herenga Waka / Victoria University of Wellington

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• research methods
• European Union
• metholodology
• European integration

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• European Union Social Sciences 89%
• research planning Social Sciences 37%
• social science Social Sciences 32%
• examination Social Sciences 13%
• methodology Social Sciences 5%

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N2 - This collection sets a new agenda for conducting research on the European Union (EU) and learns from past mistakes. In doing so it provides a state-of-the-art examination of social science research designs in EU studies while providing innovative guidelines for the advancement of more inclusive and empirically sensitive research designs in EU studies.The argument of this book is therefore that research strategies, designsand methods from across the social sciences can, and should, be applied inresearch directed at EU affairs. Against this backdrop, the purpose of thisvolume is threefold:• to provide a state-of-the-art examination of social science research designsin EU studies;• to provide innovative guidelines for the advancement of research designsin EU studies;• to move the study of EU research beyond the dichotomies of the pasttowards a new agenda for research on Europe.Research methodology is understood as a concern with research strategies,designs and methods. The focus is thus on the principles and proceduresguiding research designs and on the research techniques used for specificresearch purposes. This volume essentially addresses the ‘how to study . . . ’questions in EU studies. The questions asked are: how do we conductresearch into EU affairs? How can the broader social sciences contribute tothe advancement of research designs in EU studies? And how can we movebeyond the traditional research dichotomies in EU studies?

AB - This collection sets a new agenda for conducting research on the European Union (EU) and learns from past mistakes. In doing so it provides a state-of-the-art examination of social science research designs in EU studies while providing innovative guidelines for the advancement of more inclusive and empirically sensitive research designs in EU studies.The argument of this book is therefore that research strategies, designsand methods from across the social sciences can, and should, be applied inresearch directed at EU affairs. Against this backdrop, the purpose of thisvolume is threefold:• to provide a state-of-the-art examination of social science research designsin EU studies;• to provide innovative guidelines for the advancement of research designsin EU studies;• to move the study of EU research beyond the dichotomies of the pasttowards a new agenda for research on Europe.Research methodology is understood as a concern with research strategies,designs and methods. The focus is thus on the principles and proceduresguiding research designs and on the research techniques used for specificresearch purposes. This volume essentially addresses the ‘how to study . . . ’questions in EU studies. The questions asked are: how do we conductresearch into EU affairs? How can the broader social sciences contribute tothe advancement of research designs in EU studies? And how can we movebeyond the traditional research dichotomies in EU studies?

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• Ian Manners

Research Methods in European Union Studies

• Kennet Lynggaard
• Karl Löfgren

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Research Design in European Studies: The Case of Europeanization*

2009, JCMS: Journal of Common …

In this article, we contribute to the debate on research design and causal analysis in European integration studies by considering the sub-field of Europeanization. First, we examine the awareness of research design issues in the literature on Europeanization through a review of the debate on causality, concept formation and methods. Second, we analyse how much of the discussion of the trade-offs in causal analysis in mainstream political science has percolated into Europeanization studies. We therefore construct a sample of the Europeanization literature, comparing it to a control group of highly cited articles on European integration. This enables us to control if some patterns are specific to the Europeanization literature or reflect a more general trend in European integration. We then look at trade-offs in the Europeanization sample and in the control group. Our findings indicate that awareness of research design is still low. Europeanization articles differ from the control group in the focus on mechanisms (rather than variables) and the qualitative aspects of time in politics. Complex notions of causality prevail in Europeanization but not in the control group and the cause-of-effects approach is preferred to effects-of-causes in the control group but not in Europeanization – in both cases, however, the difference is slight. We conclude by explaining differences and similarities and make proposals for future research.

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Please note you do not have access to teaching notes, unravelling open innovation determinants and firm performance relationships in cee and see countries.

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research

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Article publication date: 27 March 2024

Open innovation (OI), by now one of the major concepts for the analysis of innovation, is seen as a methodology for collaboratively designing and implementing solutions by engaging stakeholders in an iterative and inclusive service design process. This paper aims to empirically investigate OI capacities, defined as a cooperative, knowledge-sharing innovation ecosystem, and to explore how it can lead to improved performance of firms in Central and Eastern European (CEE) and Southeastern European (SEE) countries.

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The study builds on the World Bank/European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD’s) Business Environment Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) dataset for 2009, 2013 and 2019. Primarily, the research model was estimated using log-transformed ordinary least squares (OLS). Taking into consideration that this method might produce substantial bias, yielding misleading inferences, this study is fitting Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood estimators with robust standard errors and instrumental variable/generalized method of moments estimation (IV/GMM) approach for comparative results. Secondarily, the research model was tested using structural equation modelling (SEM) to investigate the relationship between five OI capacities and firm performance.

The findings indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between most OI capacities and firm performance, except for innovation, which did not show a statistically significant relationship with firm performance. Specifically, research and development (R&D), knowledge and coopetition are statistically significant and positively associated with firm performance, whereas transformation is statistically significant but negatively associated with firm performance. The IV/GMM estimations’ findings support the view that the firm performance is significantly affected by OI capacities, together with some control variables such as size, age, foreign ownership and year dummy to have a significant impact on firm performance.

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This paper fills an identified gap in the literature by investigating the impact of OI on firm performance executed in the specific CEE and SEE country context.

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Abazi-Alili, H. , Hashi, I. , Rexhepi, G. , Ramadani, V. and Kallmuenzer, A. (2024), "Unravelling open innovation determinants and firm performance relationships in CEE and SEE countries", International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research , Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-10-2023-1112

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