The years of epistemological – and a fortiori, methodological – Manicheism waded: since the seventies, excepted for the supporters of positivism, as an epistemological position, and mathematical analytical approach, as a methodological position, methodological pluralism and non-positivist...

"This book identifies and presents the four main network-based methodologies including network analysis, Boolean network simulation modeling, artificial neural network simulation modeling, and agent-based simulation modeling in addition to their conceptual-epistemological implications and...

Organizational knowledge is at the center of the debate focused on the nature of knowledge, where the perspective of knowledge as possession opposes the perspective of knowledge as practice. These two views are rooted in the radical versions of realist and constructivist epistemology,...