Meanings
present singular third person mis-theorizes · participle present mis-theorizing · participle past mis-theorized · past mis-theorized
- alternativeAlternative form of mistheorize.
Extant scholarship and theory tends to overlook and mis-theorize the role that marginal actors play in organizational change and development.
2017, Seth A. Jacobson, Marginal Matters2 more examples
However, due to the omission of the globalization-factor in transition theory, the causes for this change are under- or mis-theorized, and due to the scarce attention given area specialists, the nature of this change may be equally mis-represented.
2005, Francis Kok-Wah Loh, Joakim Öjendal, Southeast Asian Responses to Globalization, page 362Where world-systems analysis focuses on the alleged unique nature of the modern capitalist world-system, world-system history contends that there is much fundamental continuity that allows us to see longer-term dynamics that have been ignored or mis-theorized.
2012, Salvatore J. Babones, Christopher K. Chase-Dunn, Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis, page 164
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