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  • Social Sciences
  • Humanities
  • Economics

Background:

  • Competition is a vital concept across social and economic life.
  • Interdisciplinary analysis of competition faces challenges in scope, methodology, and normativity.
  • Implicit meta-theoretical assumptions often complicate competition studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a meta-theoretical framework to facilitate interdisciplinary competition analysis.
  • To explicate meta-theoretical assumptions in scope, methodology, and normativity.
  • To illustrate the framework's utility with examples from social sciences and humanities.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a meta-theoretical framework.
  • Comparative description of selected contributions from social sciences and humanities.
  • Analysis of scope, methodological, and normative dimensions of competition.

Main Results:

  • Sufficient commonalities exist across competition concepts to justify interdisciplinary study.
  • Significant variations in competition concepts exist both between and within disciplines.
  • Interdependencies among meta-theoretical dimensions of competition are identified.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed framework aids in navigating the complexities of interdisciplinary competition research.
  • Preliminary findings suggest a unified approach to studying competition is feasible.
  • Further research is inspired by identified commonalities and intra-disciplinary variations.