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Making a consultancy slideshow 'rock solid': a study of pragmatic efficacy
Bourgoin, Alaric; Muniesa, Fabian - HAL - 2012
The paper examines the pragmatic efficacy of a paradigmatic representational device used in the work of management consulting: the diagrammatic presentation of managerial problems in a consultancy slideshow. We present an ethnographic analysis of a consultancy mission, focusing on the moments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551133
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Making a consultancy slideshow 'rock solid': a study of pragmatic efficacy
Bourgoin, Alaric; Muniesa, Fabian - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), MINES ParisTech - 2012
Examines the pragmatic efficacy of a the diagrammatic presentation of managerial problems in a consultancy slideshow through an ethnographic analysis of a consultancy mission, and discusses findings in the light of a pragmatist approach.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607819
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Pragmatism, Perspectival Realism, and Econometrics
Hoover, Kevin D. - Duke University, Department of Economics - 2010
Giere’s perspectival realism. Perspectival realism can itself be seen as a species of pragmatism, as that term is understood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009145720
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Stylistic Creativity in the Utilization of Management Tools
Lorino, Philippe - ESSEC Business School - 2007
into computable models. In interpretation-based theories (pragmatism, theory of activity, situated cognition), instruments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005021613
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Competence-based Competence Management: a Pragmatic and Interpretive Approach. The Case of a Telecommunications Company
Lorino, Philippe - ESSEC Business School - 2007
In this research we explore the issue of “competence management”, as usually defined in the corporate vocabulary, mostly in the human resource (HR) function, and more particularly of “strategic competence management” (long run management of competences which are critical to achieve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005021624
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Is Pragmatism Good for Anything? Towards a Theory of Impractical Economics
Poirot, Clifford - In: Forum for Social Economics 37 (2008) 1, pp. 61-76
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004995431
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Mathematical Economics Comes to America: Charles S. Peirce's Engagement with Cournot's Recherches sur les Principes Mathematiques de la Theorie des Richesses
Wible, James R.; Hoover, Kevin D. - Center for the History of Political Economy
Although Cournot’s mathematical economics was generally neglected until the mid- 1870s, he was taken up and carefully studied by the Scientific Club of Cambridge, Massachusetts even before his “discovery” by Walras and Jevons. The episode is reconstructed from fragmentary manuscripts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010703435
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Sur les aspects logiques de l'interprétation des signes chez Peirce et Eco
Bayart, Denis - HAL - 2007
On ne peut entrer dans l'oeuvre de Peirce sans un fil conducteur, et la logique est celui qui me convient le mieux. Il n'est certainement par possible de « lire Peirce ». D'abord, la quantité : ses écrits représenteraient approximativement cent quatre volumes de 500 pages chacun... Ensuite,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792573
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Frank Knight and pragmatism
Hands, D. Wade - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 13 (2006) 4, pp. 571-605
ideas were consistent with those of American pragmatism. Substantive textual evidence can be found to support almost any … context than it does about the broader relationship between his philosophical position and pragmatism. Knight was opposed to … the social control pragmatism of his day, but at the same time his general philosophical position has much in common with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005505363
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The Empirical Semantics Approach to Communication Structure Learning and Usage: Individualistic Vs. Systemic Views
Nickles, Matthias; Rovatsos, Michael; Schmitt, Marco; … - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 10 (2007) 1, pp. 5-5
In open systems of artificial agents, the meaning of communication in part emerges from ongoing interaction processes. In this paper, we present the empirical semantics approach to inductive derivation of communication semantics that can be used to derive this emergent semantics of communication...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518668