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摘要
The paper presents a framework for categorising and assessing theories in land tenure information systems (LTIS) to improve coherence and critical rigour in LTIS theory development. The LTIS research area is dominated by the land titling theory which holds that land titles provide tenure security, which therefore may serve as collateral for credit and thus stimulate economic activity. However, this hypothesis is not valid in many instances. Alternatives to the land title theory are isolated due to the predominance of case study research in the area, the small number of researchers focused on LTIS as a research area and the difficulty in testing these alternative theories with empirical evidence, because many of them are not expressed in a form that renders them suitable for testing. In the framework, theories are examined according to the context of the situations an LTIS is meant to serve, within which the most significant variable is the level of change or uncertainty. A taxonomy of theory presented in library information science is adapted to assess the level at which a theory may be generalised in a particular context type and linked to the framework. One way of estimating a theory%26apos;s level of general applicability is the number of times it has been validated empirically in different contexts. The framework should serve as a visualisation and analytical tool to stimulate the development of a more rigorous theoretical foundation for these information systems. The present paper is of primary interest to land administration and land information researchers, but it also has important implications for practitioners.
- 出版日期2012-10
