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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research addressing the microfoundations of corporate social performance (CSP) in small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) remains sparse. This paper aims to investigate how SME managers' ethical ideology affects CSP and examines the mediating role of their CSR orientation (CSRO): economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic.
Sarah Mohammad Suleiman Alsyoof +2 more
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Relational Epistemology in the Social Sciences: Pierre Bourdieu’s Epistemological Legacy
SkadThe distinction between subjectivist and objectivist approaches has persisted as a fundamental dichotomy in sociological theory for many years. Pierre Bourdieu’s epistemological sociology challenges these opposing approaches and aims to overcome the ...
Gürhan Özpolat
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability represents a complex issue in which scientific knowledge inevitably coexists with the subjective perception of humans in its turn influenced by civilization, cultural but also unconscious aspects. These results emerge with evidence from a critical analysis of the main definitions of sustainability delivered by credited entities (
Francesco Di Maria, Hamid Safarzadeh
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Coping with Knowledge Conditions: A Reply to Reviewers
SociologicaThis reply to the three reviews serves three purposes: it briefly recapitulates the core points of the book, addresses the specific comments raised by the reviewers, and provides general, forward-looking reflections on research in this field.
Patrik Aspers
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Our theory of education, based on a systemic understanding of the subjective and intersubjective construction of knowledge, is that students are motivated to study what is most meaningful to them. Meaningfulness is grounded in the students' prior experiences, which are highly diverse.
Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley
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Facilitating System Change With GOSR: Integrating AI and Human Collaboration
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Problem solving in complex domains requires approaches that encourage systems thinking, collaboration, and recognize multiple simultaneous solutions. Building from principles of General Systems Theory and existing problem structuring methods, we present a new method for supporting system partners working to address complex problems called GOSR.
Annika Voltan, Kevin Kells
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The Reflexive Turn in Systems Engineering: A Disciplinary Response to Complexity
Systems Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Future of Systems Engineering (FuSE) programme has called for the discipline to evolve as a transdiscipline capable of engaging complex eco‐socio‐technical challenges. Yet the pace of that evolution has been slower than the arguments for it would predict. This article examines why.
Raul Leal Ascencio
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Relacje Międzykulturowe, 2022 In this paper I present three main approaches to the problem of the being of values by discussing objectivism, subjectivism and relationism referring to historical positions.
Dariusz Juruś
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From Cutting Edges to the Cutting Edge: Knowing and Theorizing Through Collage Inquiry
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract Prompted by ongoing debates about the need for more novel and pluralistic management research, this paper explores the different ways of researching, knowing and theorizing emerging from the arts‐based method of collage inquiry. We used a problematizing approach to examine how collage inquiry has been used in management research and ...
Georgia Stavraki +2 more
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Concepts: where subjectivism goes wrong [PDF]
, 2009 The debate about concepts has always been shaped by a contrast between subjectivism, which treats them as phenomena in the mind or head of individuals, and objectivism, which insists that they exist independently of individual minds.
Hans-Johann Glock +1 more
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