"theoretical construct" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a concept or theory that doesn't have a physical existence. For example, "Our study was based on a theoretical construct of social interaction."
Scale construction includes assessment of relevant characteristics of construct and theoretical construct questionnaire developed under.
"For me the feminization of poverty is not a theoretical construct," she said.
Listeners may know another term for this theoretical construct: a beat.
To repeat, Tirole's contribution was to provide a unifying theoretical construct to study these types of issues.
This isn't empire as metaphor, theoretical construct or convenient setting; this is empire as it was lived, in the getting and the losing.
Einstein's theory of relativity was one of the great revolutions of 20th-century thought, and arguably the greatest theoretical construct of the human mind.
Specifically, they talk about the Uncanny Valley, which is the theoretical construct of a Japanese Buddhist roboticist named Masahiro Mori.
Equally pressing, the theory has yet to be supported by observations and hence remains a totally theoretical construct.
O.K., even that might sound a little patronizing, but implicit in his language is concern for the parent, all part of a theoretical construct that was revolutionary at the time he proposed it.
The mutual affection they felt was an almost entirely theoretical construct, based on memories of long-ago shared experiences — not unlike what I felt toward my brother by then, I suppose.
For them, the notion of an expanding universe teeming with galaxies would be a wholly theoretical construct, bereft of empirical evidence.
