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Performing a strategy's world: How redesigning customers made relationship banking possible

Long range planning, 2017
The paper investigates the performativity of strategy defined as a strategy's power to create the world it assumes. Building a theory based on both ‘Callonian’ and ‘Butlerian’ approaches to performativity, it focuses on the case of a large bank's retail ...
Zsuzsanna Vargha
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Wu 無 under the possible worlds theory

Asian Philosophy
This article explores four crucial problems regarding wu 無 (nothingness or nonexistence), a central concept in Chinese philosophy: (1) What is wu, and how does it relate to you 有 (somethingness or existence)? (2) Does ‘you arise from wu’ (you sheng yu wu
Xiaobo Yang
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Possible Worlds Counterfactual Theories of Causation

Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume, 1980
The numerous difficulties facing the traditional Humean regularity approach to the problem of causation have been discussed in the literature at great length. In view of the current interest in possible worlds semantics, it is not surprising that the only serious alternative treatment of causation presently available, the counterfactual approach, has ...
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Physical Theories and Possible Worlds

1988
Formalized physical theories are not, as a rule, stated in intensional languages. Yet in talking about them we often treat them as if they were. We say for instance: ‘Consider what would happen if instead of p’s being true q were. In such a case r would be likely.’ If we say this sort of thing p, q and r appear to stand for the meanings of sentences of
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A Preliminary Study on Concept and Types of Metaverse : Focusing on the Possible World Theory

Humanities Contents, 2021
Hyun-Jung Yun, Jin Lee, Hye-Soon Yun
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Performativity of Theory, Arbitrary Conventions, and Possible Worlds: A Reality Check

Organization Science, 2009
We argue that Ferraro, Pfeffer, and Sutton build on a scientifically problematic conception of the relationship between theory and social reality. Specifically, the performativity perspective that they build on makes tenuous assumptions about the role that theories, whether true or not, play in strongly constructing social reality, but the perspective
Felin, Teppo, Foss, Nicolai Juul
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The role of values in collaborative fashion consumption - A critical investigation through the lenses of the theory of planned behavior

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018
The clothing industry is one of the most polluting industries in the world. Initiators are not solely companies but also consumers who are responsible for the current state of the clothing industry. This has led to the need for innovative business models
Carolin Becker-Leifhold
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Kant’s Critical Theory of the Best Possible World

Kantian Review, 2020
AbstractIn this article I argue that the Critical Kant endorses the claim that God creates the best possible world, and that this claim is best understood as committing him to the view that God creates an infinitely valuable world. Kant’s understudied Critical theory of the best possible world differs significantly from his better-known quasi ...
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Creative Accounting: Role-playing Games, Possible-World Theory, and the Agency of Imagination

, 2005
Daniel Punday
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A brave new world: theory to practice in participatory culture and music learning and teaching

, 2018
J. Waldron, R. Mantie, Heidi Partti, Evan S. Tobias   +3 more
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