Footprint, 2009 This article offers a critical review of the conference AGENCY (November 2008), written by ‘The Agency’, a research group based in the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, where the conference was held. It was hoped that the submissions
The Agency Research Group
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Understanding the effects of one’s actions upon hidden objects and the development of search behaviour in 7-month-old infants [PDF]
, 2014 Infants' understanding of how their actions affect the visibility of hidden objects may be a crucial aspect of the development of search behaviour. To investigate this possibility, 7-month-old infants took part in a two-day training study.
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Organisations as Computing Systems
Journal of Social Ontology, 2021 Organisations are computing systems. The university’s sports centre is a computing system for managing sports teams and facilities. The tenure committee is a computing system for assigning tenure status.
Strohmaier David
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Organizational interactions in global energy governance [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter explores inter-organizational relations in the field of global energy governance. It starts by mapping the policy field of energy governance, the existing literature, and the multilateral energy architecture. It then performs an organization-
Van de Graaf, Thijs
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Impact of M & A on firm performance in India: Implications for concentration of ownership and insider entrenchment [PDF]
, 2008 performance. On the one hand, concentration of ownership that, in turn, concentrates management control in the hands of a strategic investor, eliminates agency problems associated with dispersed ownership.
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar, Selarka, Ekta
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The "Sound of Power": Investigating Polyphone Actions and the Perception of Polyphony
Transposition, 2011 This article considers polyphony from an action-theoretical angle. The notion of polyphony can be used for a comprehensive philosophical account of human agency, especially group agency.
Beatrice Kobow
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The Problem of the First Belief: Group Agents and Responsibility
Journal of Social Ontology, 2020 Attributing moral responsibility to an agent requires that the agent is a capable member of a moral community. Capable members of a moral community are often thought of as moral reasoners (or moral persons) and, thus, to attribute moral responsibility to
Hirvonen Onni
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What Are Group Speech Acts? [PDF]
, 2019 The paper provides a taxonomy of group speech acts whose main division is that between collective speech acts (singing Happy Birthday, agreeing to meet) and group proxy speech acts in which a group, such as a corporation, employs a proxy, such as a ...
Ludwig, Kirk
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Child mortality estimation 2013: an overview of updates in estimation methods by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 In September 2013, the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) published an update of the estimates of the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) and under-five deaths for all countries.
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The AEMET-γSREPS over the Antarctic Peninsula and the impact of kilometric-resolution EPS on logistic activities on the continent [PDF]
Advances in Science and Research, 2020 Kilometric-resolution Ensemble Prediction Systems (EPSs) will be the new state-of-the-art forecasting tools for short-range prediction in the following decade.
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