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An observation of organizations as social cells allows us to identify that they act within a framework of instrumental rationality, described and instrumented from the statements of the nascent sociology and, especially, by the thinking of Max ...
Simón Andrés Idrobo Zúñiga
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Sense, Communication, and Rational Engagement [PDF]
Discusses how to extend the intra-personal notion of sameness of sense to the inter-personal case.
Dickie, Imogen, Rattan, Gurpreet
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Habermas and the Other Side of Modernity
This essay tries to critique the concept of modernity through a discussion of Jürgen Habermas’ communicative rationality and modernity as an unfinished project.
Fasil Merawi
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The principles of communicative language use [PDF]
The paper aims to overview some typical principles of communicative language use in a cognitive pragmatic approach applying a reductionist method in order to demonstrate that the well-known principles can be reduced to a very general rationality (economy)
András Kertész +42 more
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The limits of communicative rationality and deliberative democracy
Mark Devenney
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The aim of the article is, based on focused theoretical considerations, to find empirical results concerning the character of several planning methods to find conclusions for their further development.
Christian Diller, Sarah Oberding
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Communication between rational agents [PDF]
The paper deals with the study of credible communication in simple communication games. As a matter of fact, the author introduces a new solution concept which does guarantee communication in some games. The solution concept in question is called Credible Message Rationalizability and combines the assumptions of rich language and rationality of agents.
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Making the business case? Intercultural differences in framing economic rationality related to environmental issues [PDF]
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to challenge the assumptions prominent in the Anglo-American context that the objective of a business is to increase its profits or/and that managers have to make 'the business case' in order to implement ...
Molthan-Hill, P
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"Freedom" through Repression: Epistemic Closure in Agricultural Trade Negotiations [PDF]
A central concern of critical theory is that of how the forces of Modern reason cause certain logics to become reified in the name of rational progress.
Gruin, J.
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The moral muteness of managers: an Anglo-American phenomenon? German and British managers and their moral reasoning about environmental sustainability in business [PDF]
Several studies in the Anglo-American context have indicated that managers present themselves as morally neutral employees who act only in the best interest of the company by employing objective skills.
Bryman A +21 more
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