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Author : Michael Lissack,Hugo K. Letiche
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Complex organizations
ISBN : 026212288X
Author : H. Letiche,M. Lissack,Ron Schultz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137001801
A discussion on the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence to take root. The authors focus on the experience of coherence and how such experiential lessons differ from the establishment and maintenance of categories and labels.
Author : H. Letiche,M. Lissack,Ron Schultz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137001801
A discussion on the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence to take root. The authors focus on the experience of coherence and how such experiential lessons differ from the establishment and maintenance of categories and labels.
Author : Peggy Holman
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781605095219
In this work, change specialist Holman reframes how we deal with chaos and change, and explains to leaders how to turn upheaval into opportunity and renewal.
Author : Robert Macintosh,Donald Maclean,Ralph Stacey,Douglas Griffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134527199
In the past decade, complexity-based thinking has exerted an increasing, yet somewhat controversial authority over management theory and practice. This has in some part been due to the influence of a number of high-profile articles and the not inconsiderable hype which has accompanied them. Another feature of the subject’s development has been the diversity of the origins of the thinking and the claims which have been made for it in terms of managerial and organizational implications. Complexity and Organization is the first text to bring this thinking together, presenting some of the most influential writing in the field, showing how the subject has developed and how it continues to influence managerial thinking. Seminal contributions to the field have been brought together in a single accessible volume, allowing readers to access what might otherwise appear a very diverse body of literature. Moreover, the editors, who represent some of the leading thinkers and writers in this field, have combined these readings with a unique commentary, indicating not only the importance of the papers but teasing out the subtle but significant differences and similarities between them. These commentaries take the form of a discussion between the editors, debating the contribution that each paper has made to the field and the influence it has had on management thinking.
Author : Elly Vintiadis,Constantinos Mekios
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191076251
Brute facts are facts that don't have explanations. Such facts appear in our explanations, inform many people's views about the structure of the world, and are part of philosophical interpretations in metaphysics and the philosophy of science. Yet, despite the considerable literature on explanation, the question of bruteness has been left largely unexamined. The chapters in Brute Facts address this gap in academic thought by exploring the central considerations which surround this topic. How can we draw a distinction between facts that can reasonably be thought of as brute and facts for which further explanation is possible? Can we explain something and gain understanding by appealing to brute facts? Is naturalism inconsistent with the existence of (non-physical) brute facts? Can modal facts be brute facts? Are emergent facts brute? This volume brings together contributions by authors who offer different answers to these questions. In presenting a range of different viewpoints on these matters, Brute Facts engages with major debates in contemporary philosophy concerning modality, naturalism, consciousness, reduction and explanation.
Author : Eva Sabine Wagner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110673180
The search for the defining qualities of narrative has produced an expansive range of definitions which, largely unconnected with each other, obscure the notion of “narrativity” rather than clarifying it. The first part of this study remedies this shortcoming by developing a graded macro model of narrativity which serves three aims. Firstly, it provides a structured overview of the field of narrative elements and processes. Secondly, it facilitates the classification of narratological approaches by locating them on different stages of narrativity. Finally, it focuses attention on narrative dynamics as interpretative processes by which readers seek to produce narrative coherence. The second part of this study identifies three different narrative dynamics which characterise Laclos’s "Dangerous Connections," Kafka’s "Castle" and Toussaint’s novels. Wagner bases her analyses of these dynamics not only on the texts themselves but also on the ways in which literary scholars imbue the texts with narrative coherence. This book provides a long overdue systematisation of the jumbled field of theories of narrativity and opens new perspectives on the difficult relationship between narrative theory and interpretation.
Author : AMALIA BERREKIA
Publisher : Groupe Innovamber Inc.
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782924591215
This presentation is accessible to a vast audience. No need to be an expert in biology or in physics or to be a yogi guru. In this book, we shall discover how our thoughts create our reality. - scientifically speaking. We do not intend to teach meditation techniques. There are numerous published reliable sources dealing with this topic, allowing anyone to learn more on the subject. However, this discipline is usually thought to be strongly connected to some kind of esotericism, or based on no scientific foundations. Our goal in writing this book is twofold: One is to prove that this statement is false, mainly because it is rooted in a misunderstanding regarding the behaving of our body and mind induced, most of the time, by a misguided methodology. The second aims at favoring an increase in the effectiveness of meditation methods: being aware of the scientific foundations of this discipline makes it possible to adapt generic techniques to one’s specific needs, since one understands their usefulness.
Author : Michael Gelven
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791492147
Traditional philosophy places a singular emphasis on tragedy, acting under the assumption that tragedy is more profound than comedy. Gelven argues that comedy deserves equal if not greater attention from philosophy. Through the interpretative readings and concrete analysis of three classical works, Gelven shows that comedy provides an access to truth unavailable by any other means. Silvius in Shakespeares's As You Like It, Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and Lord Goring in Wilde's An Ideal Husband are examined in terms of why and how they are comic, along with how and why they are seen both as fools and yet as graced. Gelven finds that in revealing the spirit of graced folly, comedy teaches us about our own essence, the fundamental nature of our finitude. This will undoubtedly be of considerable importance not only to philosophical aestheticians or literary critics, but also for those seeking to understand the nature of truth itself.
Author : Yusuf Pisan,Nikitas Marinos Sgouros,Tim Marsh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662452127
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2014, held in Sydney, Australia, in October 2013. The 20 full papers, 6 short papers and 8 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. In addition to these papers, the program featured 3 demonstration papers, and 2 workshops. The papers cover various aspects of entertainment computing including authoring, development, use and evaluation of digital entertainment artefacts and processes.
Author : Gianfranco Minati,Mario Abram,Eliano Pessa
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789814383325
The book contains the Proceedings of the 2010 Conference of the Italian Systems Society. Papers deal with the interdisciplinary study of processes of changing related to a wide variety of specific disciplinary aspects. Classical attempts to deal with them, based on generalising approaches used to study the movement of bodies and environmental influence, have included ineffective reductionistic simplifications. Indeed changing also relates, for instance, to processes of acquisition and varying properties such as for software; growing and aging biological systems; learning/cognitive systems; and socio-economic systems growing and developing through innovations. Some approaches to modelling such processes are based on considering changes in structure, e.g., phase-transitions. Other approaches are based on considering (1) periodic changes in structure as for processes of self-organisation; (2) non-periodic but coherent changes in structure, as for processes of emergence; (3) the quantum level of description. Papers in the book study the problem considering its transdisciplinary nature, i.e., systemic properties studied per se and not within specific disciplinary contexts. The aim of these studies is to outline a transdisciplinary theory of change in systemic properties. Such a theory should have simultaneous, corresponding and eventually hierarchical disciplinary aspects as expected for a general theory of emergence. Within this transdisciplinary context, specific disciplinary research activities and results are assumed to be mutually represented as within a philosophical and conceptual framework based on the theoretical centrality of the observer and conceptual non-separability of context and observer, related to logically open systems and Quantum Entanglement. Contributions deal with such issues in interdisciplinary ways considering theoretical aspects and applications from Physics, Cognitive Science, Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Architecture, Philosophy, Music and Social Systems.
Author : Alan Watkins
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749470067
Every business leader faces innumerable challenges every working day, each one taking their toll on precious energy levels and the ability to respond and react positively in a commercial environment. Coherence recognizes the key factors that take their toll on a leader's effectiveness and ability to lead, and provides the reader with unique solutions designed to improve physiological factors that impact on core competencies. Problems today cannot be solved with yesterday's level of thinking. CEOs fail and leaders burn out because our thinking has not sped up or powered up. The author not only recognizes that leaders have the potential for limitless processing power, but shows them how to access it, taking them back to fundamentals and, quite literally, to the heart of who we are and how we function successfully. By showing leaders how to be 'younger, smarter, healthier and happier' Coherence gives every decision maker the power to make influential decisions under pressure and achieve sustainable success at every level.
Author : Gianfranco Minati,Eliano Pessa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387359410
This book offers an overview on the background to systemics. It introduces the concept of Collective Being as a Multiple System established by processes of emergence and self-organization of the same agents simultaneously or dynamically interacting in different ways. The principles underlying this approach are grounded on the theoretical role of the observer. This view allows to model in a more suitable way complex systems, such as in physics, biology and economics.
Author : Majcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198885610
In digital markets, data protection and competition law affect each other in diverse and intricate ways. Their entanglement has triggered a global debate on how these two areas of law should interact to effectively address new harms and ensure that the digital economy flourishes. Coherence between Data Protection and Competition Law in Digital Markets offers a blueprint for bridging the disconnect between data protection and competition law and ensuring a coherent approach towards their enforcement in digital markets. Specifically, this book focuses on the evolution of data protection and competition law, their underlying rationale, their key features and common objectives, and provides a series of examples to demonstrate how the same empirical phenomena in digital markets pose a common challenge to protecting personal data and promoting market competitiveness. A panoply of theoretical and empirical commonalities between these two fields of law, as this volume shows, are barely mirrored in the legal, enforcement, policy, and institutional approaches in the EU and beyond, where the silo approach continues to prevail. The ideas that Majcher puts forward for a more synergetic integration of data protection and competition law are anchored in the concept of 'sectional coherence'. This new coherence-centred paradigm reimagines the interpretation and enforcement of data protection and competition law as mutually cognizant and reciprocal, allowing readers to explore, in an innovative way, the interface between these legal fields and identify positive interactions, instead of merely addressing inconsistencies and tensions. This book reflects on the conceptual, practical, institutional, and constitutional implications of the transition towards coherence and the relevance of its findings for other jurisdictions.
Author : Bjorn Olsson,Dan Lundh,Ajit Narayanan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-08-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814545600
This volume contains papers presented at the BCEC97 conference, held in Skövde, Sweden, in September 1997. The conference brought together researchers from biology and computer science to discuss the use of computational techniques in biology, as well as the use of biological metaphors in computing. Examples of the work presented in these papers include computer simulations of embryogenesis; algorithms for protein folding prediction; problem solving using DNA computation; neural-network learning in retina implants; and optimisation algorithms inspired by natural evolution.