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Substantive theory is theory derived from data analysis that involves rich conceptualizations of specific social and historical situations. While theorists and empirical researchers understand that the more parsimonious the theory, the easier it is to identify relations of cause and effect between independent and dependent variables, greater simplification often makes it more difficult to reach a full understanding or explanation of a phenomenon. Where theoretical models may at times be oversimplified, substantive theories are more complex and arrived at inductively through interpretive methods (e.g., archival research and ethnography).