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Cultivating and embracing plurality in abductive inquiries within strategy research

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Abduction offers a mode of scientific inquiry that focuses on formulating explanations for unexplained phenomena. By building a bridge between philosophy of science and strategic management research, this article offers a pluralistic view of abduction, highlighting abductive triggers as the starting point in seeking ...
Prithwiraj Choudhury, Mahka Moeen, Audra Wormald   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Test of the Coase Conjecture Using Prices of Electronic Books

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Coase Conjecture predicts that a durable‐goods monopolist without commitment will rapidly cut price toward marginal cost. We test this prediction in the electronic‐book market using release‐day prices. To proxy for marginal cost, we use competitive prices of public‐domain electronic books on the same platforms.
Tim Groseclose, Alex Tabarrok
wiley   +1 more source

Reading signs and being in the world: a dual perspective on semiotics [PDF]

Слово.ру: балтийский акцент
The article demonstrates, through a series of examples, that reflection on signs relates to two distinct mental operations: the exchange of sign messages between subjects (com­mu­nication), and the interpretation of signs and sign systems that lack a ...
doaj   +1 more source

Contemporary and Future Challenges for Structured Democratic Dialogue

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Structured Democratic Dialogue (SDD) is a participatory problem structuring methodology grounded in Structured Dialogic Design Science. It was created to help diverse stakeholders co‐construct influence maps that reveal leverage points and support coordinated action.
Yiannis Laouris, Gerald Midgley
wiley   +1 more source

Typology of Ancient Architectural Designs in Gillan in Accordance with the Role of Some Handmade Arts of This Region with Emphasis on Peirce Idea [PDF]

هنر اسلامی, 2017
One of the most important issues in the field of keeping a region or an area or a city's history & homeland alive is to find some symbols which are remained from past.
Setareh Ali Zadeh, Jamalodin Soheili
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
wiley   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

Pluralism of truths in pragmatic political discourse

Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2014
Pragmatism is of some interest to the political and philosophical research as a consecution epistemological basis of that can be observed in political practice. Just the question of truth is crucial.
A. I. Setova
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UEFA EURO 2012™ in the Polish Sociopolitical Narration

Physical Culture and Sport: Studies and Research, 2015
Sport constitutes an increasingly popular language of discourse in modern societies, providing a (formal) system of signs, which is easily used by, among others, businesses, media, public persons, and, particularly willingly, politicians.
Michaluk Tomasz, Pezdek Krzysztof
doaj   +1 more source