Stage theory
The term stage theory is used in different contexts:
- Gradual theory of Marxism , in political philosophy for the Marxist theory of a class struggle
- Step theory (Rostow) , development theory of the American economist Walt Whitman Rostow
- Nolan's step theory , theory of the development of business information technology
- Step theory (harmony) , method for examining the harmony of a piece of music
- in psychology for Kohlberg's theory of moral development
- in developmental psychology for the step model of psychosocial development by Erik H. Erikson and the model of cognitive development by Jean Piaget
- Three-stage theory , a concretization of the principle of proportionality developed by the Federal Constitutional Court
- Culture level theory (1959) after Hans Bobek (economic and social geographer)
The step theory as a term in the economy stands for:
- the economic level theory
- the level theory of internationalization or the learning theory of internationalization
