Nicolai J. Foss
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- April 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199240647
- eISBN:
- 9780191602177
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199240647.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic Systems
This book examines the impact of the knowledge economy on the knowledge production of management studies. It highlights the important parts of theorizing that have emerged within the strategy and ...
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This book examines the impact of the knowledge economy on the knowledge production of management studies. It highlights the important parts of theorizing that have emerged within the strategy and organization fields to accommodate those tendencies thought of as characterising the knowledge economy. It seeks to resolve existing tensions between ‘competence’ and ‘governance’ approaches to organization and strategy.Less
This book examines the impact of the knowledge economy on the knowledge production of management studies. It highlights the important parts of theorizing that have emerged within the strategy and organization fields to accommodate those tendencies thought of as characterising the knowledge economy. It seeks to resolve existing tensions between ‘competence’ and ‘governance’ approaches to organization and strategy.
Rebecca Hardy, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, and Scott Hofer
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199656516
- eISBN:
- 9780191748042
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199656516.003.0005
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
Many life course hypotheses can only be addressed using observational studies which follow the same individuals through time, and a birth cohort is perhaps the ideal study in which to investigate ...
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Many life course hypotheses can only be addressed using observational studies which follow the same individuals through time, and a birth cohort is perhaps the ideal study in which to investigate life course influences on ageing. Careful consideration of study design is vital to the delivery of good quality research on healthy ageing. The design of a study not only determines the research questions that can be addressed, but also various sources of error and bias. This chapter reviews approaches to data collection, highlighting the importance of mode and frequency of data collection and discusses the future opportunities afforded by innovations in data collection technology and record linkage. It argues that strong study management, a consideration of ethical concerns, and engagement of study participants are vital to the delivery of high quality data and maintenance of response rates. With increasing cross-cohort collaboration, the current resource of studies provides exciting opportunities.Less
Many life course hypotheses can only be addressed using observational studies which follow the same individuals through time, and a birth cohort is perhaps the ideal study in which to investigate life course influences on ageing. Careful consideration of study design is vital to the delivery of good quality research on healthy ageing. The design of a study not only determines the research questions that can be addressed, but also various sources of error and bias. This chapter reviews approaches to data collection, highlighting the importance of mode and frequency of data collection and discusses the future opportunities afforded by innovations in data collection technology and record linkage. It argues that strong study management, a consideration of ethical concerns, and engagement of study participants are vital to the delivery of high quality data and maintenance of response rates. With increasing cross-cohort collaboration, the current resource of studies provides exciting opportunities.
Marcelo Bucheli and R. Daniel Wadhwani (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199646890
- eISBN:
- 9780191756320
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199646890.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies
This book brings together leading organization scholars and business historians to examine the opportunities and challenges of incorporating historical research into the study of firms and markets. ...
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This book brings together leading organization scholars and business historians to examine the opportunities and challenges of incorporating historical research into the study of firms and markets. It examines the reasons for the growing interest in historically grounded research in management departments and business schools, and considers both the intellectual and practical questions the endeavor faces. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part, History and Theory, considers the relationship between historical reasoning and key theoretical schools of organizational thought, including institutional theory, evolutionary theory, and critical theory. The second part, Actors and Markets, considers how historical perspective can provide researchers with insights into organizational change, entrepreneurial processes, industry emergence, and the co-evolution of states and markets. In the final section, Sources and Methods, the contributors explicate historical methodologies within the context of other approaches to studying organizations and provide concrete suggestions for researchers in the field. The introduction places these issues within the broader context of developments in the fields of business history and organization studies, and orients readers to the ‘future of the past in management and organization studies.’Less
This book brings together leading organization scholars and business historians to examine the opportunities and challenges of incorporating historical research into the study of firms and markets. It examines the reasons for the growing interest in historically grounded research in management departments and business schools, and considers both the intellectual and practical questions the endeavor faces. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part, History and Theory, considers the relationship between historical reasoning and key theoretical schools of organizational thought, including institutional theory, evolutionary theory, and critical theory. The second part, Actors and Markets, considers how historical perspective can provide researchers with insights into organizational change, entrepreneurial processes, industry emergence, and the co-evolution of states and markets. In the final section, Sources and Methods, the contributors explicate historical methodologies within the context of other approaches to studying organizations and provide concrete suggestions for researchers in the field. The introduction places these issues within the broader context of developments in the fields of business history and organization studies, and orients readers to the ‘future of the past in management and organization studies.’
Jonathan E. Lewis
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300091922
- eISBN:
- 9780300129052
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300091922.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
What happens when the world of venture capitalism collides with the world of espionage? The answer lies inside the executive suite at Itek Corporation during the Cold War years from 1957 to 1965. ...
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What happens when the world of venture capitalism collides with the world of espionage? The answer lies inside the executive suite at Itek Corporation during the Cold War years from 1957 to 1965. Itek was manufacturing the world's most sophisticated satellite reconnaissance cameras, and the information these cameras provided about Soviet missiles and military activity was critical to U.S. security. This work examines, in detail, the challenges Itek faced not only as a contractor for the most important national security program of the time—the CIA's Project CORONA spy satellite—but also as a start-up company competing with established industrial giants. This version of the story of the Itek Corporation fills important gaps in the history of American intelligence, business history and management studies. Additionally, it addresses a variety of themes such as the compatibility of secrecy and capitalism, the struggle between profits and patriotism, and the workings of power and connections in America. The book explores how Itek executives contended with myriad business problems that were compounded by the need to raise capital without revealing the complete truth about the company's highly secret business. It also presents information about Laurance Rockefeller's venture capital operations and his role in financing Itek, based on the financier's private Itek papers. The book is both a case study of a company at the heart of the American intelligence-industrial complex during the Cold War and an examination of the impact of the CIA on the capitalist system it was created to defend.Less
What happens when the world of venture capitalism collides with the world of espionage? The answer lies inside the executive suite at Itek Corporation during the Cold War years from 1957 to 1965. Itek was manufacturing the world's most sophisticated satellite reconnaissance cameras, and the information these cameras provided about Soviet missiles and military activity was critical to U.S. security. This work examines, in detail, the challenges Itek faced not only as a contractor for the most important national security program of the time—the CIA's Project CORONA spy satellite—but also as a start-up company competing with established industrial giants. This version of the story of the Itek Corporation fills important gaps in the history of American intelligence, business history and management studies. Additionally, it addresses a variety of themes such as the compatibility of secrecy and capitalism, the struggle between profits and patriotism, and the workings of power and connections in America. The book explores how Itek executives contended with myriad business problems that were compounded by the need to raise capital without revealing the complete truth about the company's highly secret business. It also presents information about Laurance Rockefeller's venture capital operations and his role in financing Itek, based on the financier's private Itek papers. The book is both a case study of a company at the heart of the American intelligence-industrial complex during the Cold War and an examination of the impact of the CIA on the capitalist system it was created to defend.
Ali Mozaffari and Nigel Westbrook
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781526150158
- eISBN:
- 9781526158376
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526150165.00008
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
This chapter discusses nostalgia as the theoretical concept central to understanding the cultural transformations of this period. It teases out the meaning and nuances of the concept by referring to ...
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This chapter discusses nostalgia as the theoretical concept central to understanding the cultural transformations of this period. It teases out the meaning and nuances of the concept by referring to the scholarship on nostalgia itself and on its political implications in Iran. This concept, in its various forms, has prompted three other discourses pertinent to cultural production, namely, authenticity, civilization, and tradition. While addressing the Iranian context, the chapter notes that all these concepts were informed by and conveyed a global currency. It elaborates the meaning and formations of these concepts while referring to historical contexts that sustained them. Thus, while elaborating on manifestations of nostalgic authenticity, it also engages with notions of civilizational discourse and anti-Westernism that were on the rise in the 1970s. It also critically engages with ideas of tradition, which range from Traditionalism, expounded by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, to critiques of the invention of the traditions thesis. These are significant for developing a critical understanding of the nexus between development, design, and heritage in Iran. In the end, the chapter illustrates the concepts at work by referring to an example from the architect Nader Ardalan in the design of the Iran Centre for Management Studies (ICMS).Less
This chapter discusses nostalgia as the theoretical concept central to understanding the cultural transformations of this period. It teases out the meaning and nuances of the concept by referring to the scholarship on nostalgia itself and on its political implications in Iran. This concept, in its various forms, has prompted three other discourses pertinent to cultural production, namely, authenticity, civilization, and tradition. While addressing the Iranian context, the chapter notes that all these concepts were informed by and conveyed a global currency. It elaborates the meaning and formations of these concepts while referring to historical contexts that sustained them. Thus, while elaborating on manifestations of nostalgic authenticity, it also engages with notions of civilizational discourse and anti-Westernism that were on the rise in the 1970s. It also critically engages with ideas of tradition, which range from Traditionalism, expounded by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, to critiques of the invention of the traditions thesis. These are significant for developing a critical understanding of the nexus between development, design, and heritage in Iran. In the end, the chapter illustrates the concepts at work by referring to an example from the architect Nader Ardalan in the design of the Iran Centre for Management Studies (ICMS).
R. John Williams
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780300194470
- eISBN:
- 9780300206579
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300194470.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
This chapter examines the notion of technê-Zen: a discourse premised on the supposed commensurability and mutual determination of Zen Buddhism (including all of its related Taoist notions and ...
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This chapter examines the notion of technê-Zen: a discourse premised on the supposed commensurability and mutual determination of Zen Buddhism (including all of its related Taoist notions and techniques of spiritual and aestheticized practice—in short, its technê) and the possibilities of an organic and holistic form of rationalist technocracy. In analyzing the discourse of technê-Zen in Robert Pirsig's novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, its historical origins, and its ongoing role in the networked global capitalist systems we live with today, this chapter advances two main arguments: first, whereas Pirsig posits technê-Zen as a discursive rupture from the dissident “spirit of the sixties,” his book can be more correctly understood as both a continuation and an acceleration of a discourse of “cybernetic Zen” already well under way in the 1950s and 1960s; second, the forms of technê-Zen developed in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance have come to occupy an especially privileged space in the technologically saturated realms of network capitalism and particularly the corporate management theories that currently dominate international business practiceLess
This chapter examines the notion of technê-Zen: a discourse premised on the supposed commensurability and mutual determination of Zen Buddhism (including all of its related Taoist notions and techniques of spiritual and aestheticized practice—in short, its technê) and the possibilities of an organic and holistic form of rationalist technocracy. In analyzing the discourse of technê-Zen in Robert Pirsig's novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, its historical origins, and its ongoing role in the networked global capitalist systems we live with today, this chapter advances two main arguments: first, whereas Pirsig posits technê-Zen as a discursive rupture from the dissident “spirit of the sixties,” his book can be more correctly understood as both a continuation and an acceleration of a discourse of “cybernetic Zen” already well under way in the 1950s and 1960s; second, the forms of technê-Zen developed in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance have come to occupy an especially privileged space in the technologically saturated realms of network capitalism and particularly the corporate management theories that currently dominate international business practice
Helena Liu
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781529200041
- eISBN:
- 9781529200096
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529200041.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
We are living in an inhospitable world. Countries like the United States, United Kingdom and Australia are hardening their borders while organisations and societies are mounting a backlash against ...
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We are living in an inhospitable world. Countries like the United States, United Kingdom and Australia are hardening their borders while organisations and societies are mounting a backlash against even the most modest advancements towards gender and racial equality. Leadership has served as a vehicle through which domination and oppression are normalised and romanticised. Despite its troubled history, leadership continues to enjoy a sacred status in our cultures and is often upheld as the solution for inclusion. Redeeming Leadership aims to identify and challenge the violences of leadership by confronting the hegemony of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist and patriarchal ideologies within leadership theorising and practice. In doing so, the book draws on the complex and distinct traditions of anti-racist feminisms in order to offer redemptive possibilities for ‘leadership’ that may be exercised from the values of justice, solidarity and love.Less
We are living in an inhospitable world. Countries like the United States, United Kingdom and Australia are hardening their borders while organisations and societies are mounting a backlash against even the most modest advancements towards gender and racial equality. Leadership has served as a vehicle through which domination and oppression are normalised and romanticised. Despite its troubled history, leadership continues to enjoy a sacred status in our cultures and is often upheld as the solution for inclusion. Redeeming Leadership aims to identify and challenge the violences of leadership by confronting the hegemony of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist and patriarchal ideologies within leadership theorising and practice. In doing so, the book draws on the complex and distinct traditions of anti-racist feminisms in order to offer redemptive possibilities for ‘leadership’ that may be exercised from the values of justice, solidarity and love.
Steffen Bauer, Frank Biermann, Klaus Dingwerth, and Bernd Siebenhüner
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262012744
- eISBN:
- 9780262258593
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262012744.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
This chapter focuses on international organizations and bureaucracies in international relations research. In particular, it examines the relative neglect of international bureaucracies in ...
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This chapter focuses on international organizations and bureaucracies in international relations research. In particular, it examines the relative neglect of international bureaucracies in international relations theory and discusses theoretical approaches from international relations research as well as from management studies. The chapter also discusses important differences between commercial organizations and public non-profit bureaucracies, along with the use of principal-agent theory to study international bureaucracies.Less
This chapter focuses on international organizations and bureaucracies in international relations research. In particular, it examines the relative neglect of international bureaucracies in international relations theory and discusses theoretical approaches from international relations research as well as from management studies. The chapter also discusses important differences between commercial organizations and public non-profit bureaucracies, along with the use of principal-agent theory to study international bureaucracies.
Edmund Heery
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199569465
- eISBN:
- 9780191829611
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199569465.003.0004
- Subject:
- Business and Management, HRM / IR, Organization Studies
Chapter Four presents an overview of critical writing on work and employment, drawing a distinction between critical labour studies and critical management studies. The chapter examines how the ...
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Chapter Four presents an overview of critical writing on work and employment, drawing a distinction between critical labour studies and critical management studies. The chapter examines how the employment relationship is conceived in the critical tradition and outlines the critical research agenda, conceptions of worker subjectivity, explanatory theories, and forms of engagement. A central activity in the critical tradition is critique and the chapter identifies the main ‘critical tropes’ that are relied upon by critical scholars both when they engage with the real world of work and with the work of their unitary and pluralist counterparts. The chapter concludes with an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the critical tradition, endorsing its focus on critique and identification with those who have less power but arguing that the tradition persistently exaggerates the degraded character of capitalist work relations and underestimates the scope for meaningful reform within capitalist economies.Less
Chapter Four presents an overview of critical writing on work and employment, drawing a distinction between critical labour studies and critical management studies. The chapter examines how the employment relationship is conceived in the critical tradition and outlines the critical research agenda, conceptions of worker subjectivity, explanatory theories, and forms of engagement. A central activity in the critical tradition is critique and the chapter identifies the main ‘critical tropes’ that are relied upon by critical scholars both when they engage with the real world of work and with the work of their unitary and pluralist counterparts. The chapter concludes with an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the critical tradition, endorsing its focus on critique and identification with those who have less power but arguing that the tradition persistently exaggerates the degraded character of capitalist work relations and underestimates the scope for meaningful reform within capitalist economies.
Alan Baron, John Hassard, Fiona Cheetham, and Sudi Sharifi
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- December 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198813958
- eISBN:
- 9780191851865
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198813958.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies, Public Management
The literature on management and organization studies suggests the time is right for a focus on ‘care and compassion’. The aim of this book is to answer this call by examining the cultural changes ...
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The literature on management and organization studies suggests the time is right for a focus on ‘care and compassion’. The aim of this book is to answer this call by examining the cultural changes found within a particular ‘compassionate organization’—an English hospice—from its altruistic beginnings to the more professionalized culture of today. The study seeks to understand how its members identify or fail to identify with an organization where issues of life and death take centre stage and explores some of the problems the Hospice faces regarding its representation in society. These strands are then drawn together to consider the interrelationships between culture, identity, and image in the organization. An ethnographic approach—including participant observation, extended interviews, and group meetings—was used to study this organization over a period of almost two years. This enabled the production of a nuanced, sensitive, and holistic interpretation of the case study Hospice as inferred from the views of both insiders and outsiders. The findings shed new light on the literature in management studies by proposing a view of culture as a sense-making context that facilitates group socialization underpinning a sense of personal and organizational identity. The study suggests a link between culture and group identification, making discussions about culture almost inseparable from those around identity. With regard to identity and image, however, the study suggests a dynamic and iterative relationship with a continuous flow between interpretation and reinterpretation influenced by the all-pervading cultural context.Less
The literature on management and organization studies suggests the time is right for a focus on ‘care and compassion’. The aim of this book is to answer this call by examining the cultural changes found within a particular ‘compassionate organization’—an English hospice—from its altruistic beginnings to the more professionalized culture of today. The study seeks to understand how its members identify or fail to identify with an organization where issues of life and death take centre stage and explores some of the problems the Hospice faces regarding its representation in society. These strands are then drawn together to consider the interrelationships between culture, identity, and image in the organization. An ethnographic approach—including participant observation, extended interviews, and group meetings—was used to study this organization over a period of almost two years. This enabled the production of a nuanced, sensitive, and holistic interpretation of the case study Hospice as inferred from the views of both insiders and outsiders. The findings shed new light on the literature in management studies by proposing a view of culture as a sense-making context that facilitates group socialization underpinning a sense of personal and organizational identity. The study suggests a link between culture and group identification, making discussions about culture almost inseparable from those around identity. With regard to identity and image, however, the study suggests a dynamic and iterative relationship with a continuous flow between interpretation and reinterpretation influenced by the all-pervading cultural context.
Martin Parker
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199595341
- eISBN:
- 9780191750755
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199595341.003.0006
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Political Economy
I understand The New Spirit of Capitalism to be explaining the present by recourse to existing mechanisms of power, including resistance to that power. There appears to be nothing external to the ...
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I understand The New Spirit of Capitalism to be explaining the present by recourse to existing mechanisms of power, including resistance to that power. There appears to be nothing external to the explanation which could cause it to fail because everything is included. This appears to mean that the future must be more of the same, and that all the vibrant forms of intellectual and practical resistance to contemporary capitalist forms are doomed to be incorporated too. This chapter explores the problems with this argument and suggests that there are actually many alternatives to the new spirit of capitalism, should we care to look for them. In part this is an attempt to counter Boltanski and Chiapellos sociologic with empirical evidence, but it is also to insist that there are already existing forms of action and justification that cannot be explained (away) by their argument.Less
I understand The New Spirit of Capitalism to be explaining the present by recourse to existing mechanisms of power, including resistance to that power. There appears to be nothing external to the explanation which could cause it to fail because everything is included. This appears to mean that the future must be more of the same, and that all the vibrant forms of intellectual and practical resistance to contemporary capitalist forms are doomed to be incorporated too. This chapter explores the problems with this argument and suggests that there are actually many alternatives to the new spirit of capitalism, should we care to look for them. In part this is an attempt to counter Boltanski and Chiapellos sociologic with empirical evidence, but it is also to insist that there are already existing forms of action and justification that cannot be explained (away) by their argument.
Paul du Gay and Signe Vikkelsø
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198705123
- eISBN:
- 9780191774225
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198705123.003.0004
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies, Knowledge Management
This chapter addresses one of the most pervasive symptoms of the metaphysical stance: the continuous reference to ‘change’ as an indisputable ontological premise. On the one hand, change is ...
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This chapter addresses one of the most pervasive symptoms of the metaphysical stance: the continuous reference to ‘change’ as an indisputable ontological premise. On the one hand, change is represented as an organizational imperative that increasingly appears to trump all other concerns. On the other, change is addressed as an abstracted fashion that can be theorized, categorized, evaluated, and acted upon without further specification. The chapter investigates the way ‘change’ is addressed and evaluated in the organizational development (OD) tradition, the emergent change tradition, the strategic change tradition, and the critical management studies tradition. It posits that none of the four schools of thought take measures to empirically specify the notion of change, but rather advance their arguments from the terrain of a metaphysical stance. It indicates that the stance they adopt has some unfortunate consequences for the precise assessment and practical management of particular organizational changes.Less
This chapter addresses one of the most pervasive symptoms of the metaphysical stance: the continuous reference to ‘change’ as an indisputable ontological premise. On the one hand, change is represented as an organizational imperative that increasingly appears to trump all other concerns. On the other, change is addressed as an abstracted fashion that can be theorized, categorized, evaluated, and acted upon without further specification. The chapter investigates the way ‘change’ is addressed and evaluated in the organizational development (OD) tradition, the emergent change tradition, the strategic change tradition, and the critical management studies tradition. It posits that none of the four schools of thought take measures to empirically specify the notion of change, but rather advance their arguments from the terrain of a metaphysical stance. It indicates that the stance they adopt has some unfortunate consequences for the precise assessment and practical management of particular organizational changes.
Grzegorz W. Kolodko
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231150699
- eISBN:
- 9780231521567
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231150699.003.0009
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, International
This chapter talks about the coincidence theory and how it comes into contact with other disciplines—historical analysis, psychological analysis, management studies, and future studies, among ...
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This chapter talks about the coincidence theory and how it comes into contact with other disciplines—historical analysis, psychological analysis, management studies, and future studies, among others—and uses their syntheses. Comparative economics is a vital component in the coincidence theory of development. Comparison is a valuable research instrument because it allows for the selection of critical elements, the presence of which can determine the existence of a phenomenon or process from among the range of conditions for growth and development. The coincidence theory of development, together with the approach to specific kinds of development challenges, will create a leverage point for pragmatic action to solve various problems. The new pragmatism is the discourse that accompanies the theory; it is the essence of a method of development strategy and economic policy.Less
This chapter talks about the coincidence theory and how it comes into contact with other disciplines—historical analysis, psychological analysis, management studies, and future studies, among others—and uses their syntheses. Comparative economics is a vital component in the coincidence theory of development. Comparison is a valuable research instrument because it allows for the selection of critical elements, the presence of which can determine the existence of a phenomenon or process from among the range of conditions for growth and development. The coincidence theory of development, together with the approach to specific kinds of development challenges, will create a leverage point for pragmatic action to solve various problems. The new pragmatism is the discourse that accompanies the theory; it is the essence of a method of development strategy and economic policy.
Harald Bathelt, Francesca Golfetto, and Diego Rinallo
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199643080
- eISBN:
- 9780191779541
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199643080.003.0003
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Knowledge Management
Drawing on the linkages between regional/local industry agglomeration and export activities, this chapter begins conceptualizing trade shows as temporary markets in which vertical flows (along the ...
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Drawing on the linkages between regional/local industry agglomeration and export activities, this chapter begins conceptualizing trade shows as temporary markets in which vertical flows (along the value chain) dominate, and horizontal flows (between competitors) occur as a by-product. This leads to market and non-market relations. These are structured by trade show organizers aiming to facilitate the exhibitors' promotional endeavours. While direct contracts and sales during trade shows have declined, knowledge flows have become more important in the interactions between trade show participants over time. This leads to a knowledge-based conceptualization of trade shows as temporary clusters that are characterized by specific vertical, horizontal, and institutional dimensions. The nature of temporary clusters gives rise to a specific, often self-sustaining, information and communication ecology, referred to as global buzz, which enables processes of learning by interaction and learning by observation. The interdisciplinary conceptualization developed in this chapter integrates perspectives from economic geography and management studies.Less
Drawing on the linkages between regional/local industry agglomeration and export activities, this chapter begins conceptualizing trade shows as temporary markets in which vertical flows (along the value chain) dominate, and horizontal flows (between competitors) occur as a by-product. This leads to market and non-market relations. These are structured by trade show organizers aiming to facilitate the exhibitors' promotional endeavours. While direct contracts and sales during trade shows have declined, knowledge flows have become more important in the interactions between trade show participants over time. This leads to a knowledge-based conceptualization of trade shows as temporary clusters that are characterized by specific vertical, horizontal, and institutional dimensions. The nature of temporary clusters gives rise to a specific, often self-sustaining, information and communication ecology, referred to as global buzz, which enables processes of learning by interaction and learning by observation. The interdisciplinary conceptualization developed in this chapter integrates perspectives from economic geography and management studies.