scholarly journals Animating Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-143
Author(s):  
Jordan Gowanlock
Keyword(s):  
Management Science ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Digital Animation ◽  
Controlled Conditions ◽  
Epistemic Frame

AbstractThis chapter studies how the management theory of digital animation studios like Pixar Animation has been influenced by the paradigms that premise their unpredictable algorithmic animations. This epistemic frame leads Pixar to represent creativity as the unpredictable product of carefully controlled conditions and parameters. This collapse of technology, animation, and management science helps to sculpt Pixar’s own corporate image as both an animation studio and a technology company. These findings nuance existing accounts of post-Fordist labor in creative industries.

scholarly journals Animating Management: Nonlinear Simulation and Management Theory at Pixar

Animation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Jordan Gowanlock
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Image ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Nonlinear Simulation ◽  
Industrial Management ◽  
Digital Animation ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Business Journal ◽  
And Control

Existing scholarship finds that early industrialized animation studios sought to emphasize the unpredictable liveliness of creativity at their studios, while also demonstrating their ability to control and manage production through industrial management techniques that promoted regulation and efficiency. This article examines how this dynamic between unpredictability and control has been negotiated by digital animation studios since the early 1980s, with a focus on the way Pixar Animation Studios represents its management theory through popular books, business journal articles, DVD extras, and behind-the-scenes promotional material. This article highlights how computational principles for creating and managing unpredictability via nonlinear simulation inform Pixar’s promoted management theory. The principles of simulated unpredictability ground many of Pixar’s key technological advances, especially for animating fluids and materials (water, smoke, fur, and cloth), but they also ground concepts within the field of management science such as industrial dynamics and organizational resilience. This epistemic frame leads Pixar to represent creativity as the unpredictable product of carefully controlled conditions and parameters and this collapse of technology, animation, and management helps to sculpt Pixar’s own corporate image as both an animation studio and technology company. The research in this article offers contributions to the study of both post-Fordism in animation industries and algorithmic control.

scholarly journals Scientific School of Management Theory

Upravlenie ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Латфуллин ◽  
Gennadiy Latfullin
Keyword(s):  
Production Management ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Holistic Management ◽  
Economic Institute ◽  
Contemporary Management ◽  
In The Beginning

With man’s appearance on the earth everything of his existence, functioning and development was provided by a targeted impact on the environment. Expressing this impact the process of setting and achieving goals is now defined as a universal management of the widest range of objects, most notably human society. Naturally, this process became a matter of practical observation, applied research, theory building, causing over time, formation of management science. The initiator, founder and organizer of the first in our country scientific school of management theory and of the Department, got in the beginning, the name “Scientific fundamentals of production management” of the Moscow Engineering Economic Institute, became doctor of economic Sciences, Professor Kozlova Olympiada Vasil’evna. She united and directed the research and teaching activities of scientists and practitioners to the design, development and application of holistic management theory. Today it has become one of the fundamental principles of presentation and development of contemporary management science.

The Structure of Theory and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions

2011 ◽  
pp. 2177-2201
Author(s):  
Steven E. Wallis
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
University Management ◽  
Business World ◽  
Scientific Revolutions ◽  
Structure Of Scientific Revolutions

From a Kuhnian perspective, a paradigmatic revolution in management science will significantly improve our understanding of the business world and show practitioners (including managers and consultants) how to become much more effective. Without an objective measure of revolution, however, the door is open for spurious claims of revolutionary advance. Such claims cause confusion among scholars and practitioners and reduce the legitimacy of university management programs. Metatheoretical methods, based on insights from systems theory, provide new tools for analyzing the structure of theory. Propositional analysis is one such method that may be applied to objectively quantify the formal robustness of management theory. In this chapter, I use propositional analysis to analyze different versions of a theory as it evolves across 1,500 years of history. This analysis shows how the increasing robustness of theory anticipates the arrival of revolution and suggests an innovative and effective way for scholars and practitioners to develop and evaluate theories of management.

The Structure of Theory and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions

2010 ◽  
pp. 151-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven E. Wallis
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
University Management ◽  
Business World ◽  
Scientific Revolutions ◽  
Structure Of Scientific Revolutions

From a Kuhnian perspective, a paradigmatic revolution in management science will significantly improve our understanding of the business world and show practitioners (including managers and consultants) how to become much more effective. Without an objective measure of revolution, however, the door is open for spurious claims of revolutionary advance. Such claims cause confusion among scholars and practitioners and reduce the legitimacy of university management programs. Metatheoretical methods, based on insights from systems theory, provide new tools for analyzing the structure of theory. Propositional analysis is one such method that may be applied to objectively quantify the formal robustness of management theory. In this chapter, I use propositional analysis to analyze different versions of a theory as it evolves across 1,500 years of history. This analysis shows how the increasing robustness of theory anticipates the arrival of revolution and suggests an innovative and effective way for scholars and practitioners to develop and evaluate theories of management.

scholarly journals Untangling Faculty Misinformation From an Educational Perspective: Rejoinder to “The Menace of Misinformation: Faculty Misstatements in Management Education and Their Consequences”

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-453
Author(s):  
Taiga Brahm ◽  
Tobias Jenert
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
The Future ◽  
Educational Perspective ◽  
Future Management ◽  
Management Theories

In their thought-provoking article, Giacalone and Promislo point to some problematic ideas in management education such as the adoration of materialism and competition or the notion of the economic model as a natural law. But do students really develop such ideas because they were misinformed by their teachers? Misinformation implies that what is taught is not the truth or at least not the whole truth. We suggest that the question of how to design future management education cannot be answered by only looking at what should be taught. Rather, we suggest that debates about the future of management education should not only be concerned with content but also the epistemology and the teaching of management theory. Not only does the current mainstream of management education misinform students by painting a one-sided picture of economic realities. Rather, and even more importantly, it leads students to develop misconceptions of knowledge in management science as being objective and unambiguous. Teaching students how to reflect on the assumptions behind management theories as well as their own assumptions and values might be a possible way to tackle the challenge of misinformation.

scholarly journals The Development of Management Theory in Business Organizations, an Overview of the Science Philosophy Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Miswaanto Miswanto
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Epistemological Perspective ◽  
Science Philosophy

Based on the philosophy of science, the development of management science uses the perspective of ontology, epistemology, and axiology. In the perspective of ontology, the essence of management theory in business organizations is the science that offers a management process so that business organizations can achieve their goals. The final goal to be achieved by the process this management is the achievement or fulfillment of goals that have been set. Based on an epistemological perspective, management theory in business organizations introduces methods or ways of making decisions or solving problems that can be used by managers in running business organizations. In addition, management science introduces various management theories to be practiced in business activities. In an axiological perspective, ethical values and social responsibility must be a serious concern in applying management science to business organizations. In management theory, business orientation is not only looking for profit but also give attention to the norms prevailing in society and give attention to the interests and welfare of all parties. Because management theory has the perspective of ontology, epistemology, and axiology, management theory is really a philosophy of science. Therefore, management theory needs to be developed to be implemented in business organizations.

Methodological tools of management science in social and economic environments

2020 ◽  
pp. 4-17
Author(s):  
B.N. Gerasimov
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Type Model ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
System Process ◽  
Management Approaches

At present, sometimes there is a need to use the main methodological tools of management science that form the vision and support the choice of management approaches to research, construction and reform of objects in various fields of activity in social and economic environments. The scientific literature of management theory and empirical research allowed us to choose the main approaches that are most productively used in economic systems of the «organization» type. Model representations of system, process, functional, and situational approaches to the formation of structures, relationships and content of objects in social and economic environments are developed.

scholarly journals Integrating media clusters and value networks: Insights for management theory and research from a case study of Mediapolis in Finland

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sari Virta ◽  
Gregory Ferrell Lowe
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Value Networks ◽  
Value Network ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Network Cluster ◽  
The City

AbstractWe argue that there is scholarly potential in linking theory on industry clusters with theory on value networks. To date, these two theoretical streams have developed largely in parallel, limiting understanding of how the two are integrated in practice. By considering these theories in combination and the unique context of creative industries, we generate insight on the management of clusters as value networks. Our ongoing longitudinal empirical case is a new media cluster called ‘Mediapolis’ in the city of Tampere, Finland. The case study commenced at the time the cluster was in the planning and early operational stage. Results demonstrate the usefulness of linking the two theories, and support a future research agenda examining the types of cluster configurations meeting the criteria of value networks, and the conditions under which value network cluster configurations are more sustainable than simply a spatial agglomeration of clusters.

scholarly journals ANIMASI DENGAN GAMBAR BERGERAK MENINGKATKAN DAYA TARIK PROGRAM PROMOSI

CCIT Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-126
Author(s):  
Dewi Immaniar Desrianti ◽  
Ahmad Nur Firdaus ◽  
Deny Pangestu Gunawan
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Image ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
3D Animation ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The Many ◽  
A Company

The development of creative industries is growing, as evidenced by the many industry-emerging creative industry. The media campaign is currently very helpful in supporting the information and communication All of that is because of the many interests of the creative industry services. Many competitors require companies to do promotions to attract customers. Penyajiaan media ads interesting and entertaining will encourage the general public to find out more detail and have an interest to join a company or institute of technology is so rapid in PT.Movio Screen as a company engaged in the creative industry. Have a good portfolio will make promotion and enhance the corporate image. 3D animation movie series is a very good portfolio and attractive for media promotion for a company in the field of creative industries, in addition to the 3D animated film can enhance a company's image. In the 3D animation movie of the series can also be a support to increase the creation of the nation of the 3D animated film, to be more creative again in making animated films in 3D and can inspire people to work in the creative industries in order to generate industry local animation, based on a story in this animation.

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