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Equifinality

Equifinality is the principle that in open systems a given end state can be reached by many potential means. The term and concept is due to Hans… 
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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Process tracing : from metaphor to analytic tool
Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. Process tracing: from philosophical roots to best practices Andrew Bennett and Jeffrey T… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Mapping Shared Understandings Using Relational Class Analysis: The Case of the Cultural Omnivore Reexamined1
  • Amir Goldberg
  • American Journal of Sociology
  • 2011
  • Corpus ID: 17203820
What do sociologists mean when they describe culture as founded on “shared understandings”? Sharing an understanding does not… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Equifinality of formal (DREAM) and informal (GLUE) Bayesian approaches in hydrologic modeling?
In recent years, a strong debate has emerged in the hydrologic literature regarding what constitutes an appropriate framework for… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Equifinality in parameterization of process‐based biogeochemistry models: A significant uncertainty source to the estimation of regional carbon dynamics
[1] Numerical biogeochemistry models suffer from equifinality problem in their parameterizations using eddy flux tower data… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Physics‐based hydrologic‐response simulation: Seeing through the fog of equifinality
Equifinality The need to characterize the distributed nature of near-surface hydrologic response has been stressed recently by… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Scaling the quality of teammates' mental models: equifinality and normative comparisons
We tested the impact of teammates' team and task mental model sharedness on team processes and performance using 70 undergraduate… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES AND THE EMERGENCE OF INTRAINDUSTRY DIFFERENTIAL FIRM PERFORMANCE: INSIGHTS FROM A SIMULATION STUDY
This paper explores how the dynamic capabilities of firms may be linked to differential firm performance within an industry. A… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Anastomosing rivers: a review of their classification, origin and sedimentary products
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES, WHAT ARE THEY?
Seeks to present a better understanding of dynamic capabilities and the resource-based view of the firm. Dynamic capabilities are… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Equifinality and multifinality in developmental psychopathology
Since its inception as an emergent interdisciepigenesis, may lead to the same outcome, plinary science, diversity in process and… 
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