Conceptual Comparison and Conceptual Innovation

2009 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Harold I. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Innovation

scholarly journals The radical Right, realism, and the politics of conservatism in postwar international thought

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Jean-François Drolet ◽  
Michael C. Williams
Keyword(s):  
World Politics ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Conceptual Innovation ◽  
Intellectual Origins ◽  
International Thought

Abstract The rise of the radical Right over the last decade has created a situation that demands engagement with the intellectual origins, achievements, and changing worldviews of radical conservative forces. Yet, conservative thought seems to have no distinct place in the theoretical field that has structured debates within the discipline of IR since 1945. This article seeks to explain some of the reasons for this absence. In the first part, we argue that there was in fact a clear strand of radical conservative thought in the early years of the field's development and recover some of these forgotten positions. In the second part, we argue that the near disappearance of those ideas can be traced in part to a process of ‘conceptual innovation’ through which postwar realist thinkers sought to craft a ‘conservative liberalism’ that defined the emerging field's theoretical alternatives in ways that excluded radical right-wing positions. Recovering this history challenges some of IR's most enduring narratives about its development, identity, and commitments – particularly the continuing tendency to find its origins in a defining battle between realism and liberalism. It also draws attention to overlooked resources to reflect upon the challenge of the radical Right in contemporary world politics.

Actor-Network Theory Contract Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-94
Author(s):  
Mika Viljanen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Contract Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Governance Structures ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Hybrid Governance ◽  
Conceptual Innovation ◽  
Complex Hybrid

AbstractFirms increasingly use complex hybrid governance structures to manage value generation networks. Empirical evidence demonstrates that the structures contain soft, “enforcement-challenged” contractual devices. Existing contract theories, however, fail to recognize and explain how these soft contract devices work as legal devices. The article seeks to address this failure.The article uses a conceptual innovation by Schepker et al to construct an actor-network theory (ANT) inspired contract theory. Schepker et al argued that contracts are best understood as often concurrently serving safeguarding, coordination, and adaptation goals. The article argues that combined with ANT the functional contracting frame allows us to recognize that contracts work and gain efficacy in multiple ways. To understand how the soft, “enforcement-challenged” contract devices work, the article traces the efficacy mechanisms the devices perform and enact.The tracings lead the article to propose an ANT contract theory that builds on three intertwined ideas: 1) contract devices have no core efficacy networks but multiple parallel efficacies, 2) contracts should be understood as bricolage collages of small-scale contractual point intervention devices that each deploy and rely on their own efficacy mechanisms and patterns, and 3) the force of contract resides in the socio-material assemblages contracts are capable of creating and sustaining.

Conceptual Innovation and Public Policy: Unemployment and Paid Leave Schemes in Denmark

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Compston ◽  
Per Kongshøj Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Paid Leave ◽  
Conceptual Innovation ◽  
Innovation And Public Policy

Hybrid analogies in conceptual innovation in science

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Nersessian ◽  
Sanjay Chandrasekharan
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Innovation

What Can Comparative Authoritarianism Tell Us About China Under Xi Jinping (and Vice Versa)?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
HANS H. TUNG ◽  
WEN-CHIN WU
Keyword(s):  
Current Literature ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Regime Stability ◽  
Conceptual Innovation ◽  
Authoritarian Politics ◽  
Autocratic Politics

This paper evaluates the progress and impact of the literature on comparative authoritarianism, showing not only how its development over the previous two decades can help us understand China’s authoritarian politics better, but also how the latter can move the former forward. We focus on two important topic areas in the literature: authoritarian power-sharing and autocratic politics of information (e.g., partial media freedom and government censorship). For the first topic, we shall review the literature on the authoritarian power-sharing between dictators and their allies and explicate how this conceptual innovation helps us understand the institutional foundation of China’s regime stability and phenomenal economic performance before Xi Jinping. The analysis then provides us a baseline for assessing China’s economic and political future under Xi Jinping given his clear departure from the pre-existing power-sharing framework. Finally, this paper also assesses the relevance of the literature on authoritarian politics of information to the Chinese context. In sum, we not only emphasize the conceptual contributions of the literature of comparative authoritarianism to the field of Chinese politics, but also identify lacunae in the current literature and avenues for future research that post-Xi political developments have made visible to us.

Cost Management Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajiv D. Banker ◽  
Dmitri Byzalov ◽  
Shunlan Fang ◽  
Yi Liang
Keyword(s):  
Cost Management ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
Conceptual Innovation ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Cost Behavior ◽  
Operating Decisions

ABSTRACTThe traditional view of cost behavior assumes a simple mechanistic relation between cost drivers and costs. In contrast, contemporary cost management research recognizes that costs are caused by managers' operating decisions subject to various constraints, incentives, and psychological biases. This conceptual innovation opens up the “black box” of cost behavior and gives researchers a powerful new way to use observed cost behavior as a lens to study the determinants and the consequences of managers' operating decisions. Banker and Byzalov (2014) presented an overview of the economic theory of cost behavior and major estimation issues. The research literature on cost management has grown rapidly in the past few years and has enhanced the understanding of how managerial decisions influence observed costs. In this study, we provide a comprehensive review of recent findings and insights, with a particular emphasis on the implications of cost management for understanding issues in cost, managerial, and financial accounting, and challenges and opportunities for future research.

Conceptual Innovation and the Future of Environmental Policy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Meadowcroft ◽  
Daniel J. Fiorino
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Environmental Equity ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
Individual Concept ◽  
Policy Domain ◽  
Conceptual Innovation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Environmental Limits

This chapter provides a conclusion to the volume. It begins by synthesising some of the main findings of the eleven individual concept studies. It then considers the light these studies shed on processes of conceptual innovation in the environmental policy domain. Finally, it considers what these cases, and attention to concepts and conceptual innovation more generally, can tell us about the underlying structure and evolution of the environmental policy domain. In particular it discusses four cross-cutting themes which emerge from this enquiry: science and policy, environmental limits, economy and environment, and environmental equity.

Dreams of a Final Theory T

2021 ◽  
pp. 146-157
Author(s):  
Mark Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
David Lewis ◽  
Good Theory ◽  
Final Theory ◽  
Conceptual Innovation ◽  
Axiomatizable Theory ◽  
Analytic Metaphysics

The grander metaphysical schemes popular in Hertz’s era often suppressed conceptual innovation in manifestly unhelpful ways. In counterreaction, Hertz and his colleagues stressed the raw pragmatic advantages of “good theory” considered as a functional whole and rejected the armchair meditations upon individual words characteristic of the metaphysical imperatives they spurned. Rudolf Carnap’s later rejection of all forms of “metaphysics” attempts to broaden these methodological tenets to a wider canvas. In doing so, the notion of an integrated, axiomatizable “theory” became the shaping tenet within our most conception of how the enterprise of “rigorous conceptual analysis” should be prosecuted. Although Carnap hoped to suppress all forms of metaphysics, large and small, through these means, in more recent times, closely allied veins of “theory T thinking” have instead encouraged a revival of grand metaphysical speculation that embodies many of the suppressive doctrines that Hertz’s generation rightly resisted (I have in mind the school of “analytic metaphysics” founded by David Lewis). The proper corrective to these inflated ambitions lies in directly examining the proper sources of descriptive effectiveness in the liberal manner of a multiscalar architecture.

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