{"id":506,"date":"2020-04-23T01:52:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T01:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.drinnovator.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2020-04-23T01:52:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T01:52:32","slug":"why-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drmnas.datsini.com\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Why Theory?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>A theory is a deep, principled explanation of phenomena&nbsp;(March &amp; Smith, 1995, p. 253). Theories aim to describe, explain, and enhance understanding of the world and, in some cases, to provide predictions of what will happen in the future and to give a basis for intervention and action&nbsp;(Gregor, 2006, p. 616).<\/em><\/li><li><em>Gregor (2002)&nbsp;observes, in the IS \ufb01eld many researchers who use the word \u2018theory\u2019 in their work fail to give any explicit de\ufb01nition of their own view of theory.<\/em><\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A theory is a deep, principled explanation of phenomena&nbsp;(March &amp; Smith, 1995, p. 253). Theories aim to describe, explain, and enhance understanding of the world and, in some cases, to provide predictions of what will happen in the future and to give a basis for intervention and action&nbsp;(Gregor, 2006, p. 616). Gregor (2002)&nbsp;observes, in the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/drmnas.datsini.com\/?p=506\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Theory?<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmnas.datsini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmnas.datsini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmnas.datsini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmnas.datsini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmnas.datsini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/drmnas.datsini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"http:\/\/drmnas.datsini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmnas.datsini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmnas.datsini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmnas.datsini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}