Duality theory and the management of the change–stability paradox

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Sutherland ◽  
Aaron CT Smith
Keyword(s):  
Duality Theory ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Structural Support ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Stability Change ◽  
Opening Up

AbstractThis article proposes that duality theory plays a role in obtaining more nuanced and textured insights into the complex, paradoxical stability–change nexus by illustrating how tensions are managed not through definitive resolution toward one pole or the other, but through improvised boundary heuristics that establish a broad conforming imperative while opening up enabling mechanisms. Duality thinking also reinforces the need to discard assumptions about opposing values, instead replacing them with an appreciation of complementary concepts. The article explores the characteristics of dualities to allow managers to chart what they are seeking from their management interventions and subsequent choices in structural support systems. A key benefit of identifying and explaining duality characteristics comes in attempting to understand how to mediate between two contradictory dimensions of organizing, such as continuity and change. Our argument is that both need to be encouraged, but this requires a particular mindset where the problem of mediation viewed as the need to work towards simultaneity and synergistic mutuality rather than resolution of action between the two opposing dimensions.

Duality theory and the management of the change–stability paradox

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Sutherland ◽  
Aaron CT Smith
Keyword(s):  
Duality Theory ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Structural Support ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Stability Change ◽  
Opening Up

AbstractThis article proposes that duality theory plays a role in obtaining more nuanced and textured insights into the complex, paradoxical stability–change nexus by illustrating how tensions are managed not through definitive resolution toward one pole or the other, but through improvised boundary heuristics that establish a broad conforming imperative while opening up enabling mechanisms. Duality thinking also reinforces the need to discard assumptions about opposing values, instead replacing them with an appreciation of complementary concepts. The article explores the characteristics of dualities to allow managers to chart what they are seeking from their management interventions and subsequent choices in structural support systems. A key benefit of identifying and explaining duality characteristics comes in attempting to understand how to mediate between two contradictory dimensions of organizing, such as continuity and change. Our argument is that both need to be encouraged, but this requires a particular mindset where the problem of mediation viewed as the need to work towards simultaneity and synergistic mutuality rather than resolution of action between the two opposing dimensions.

Diaspora Capitalism and the Homeland: Australian Chinese Networks into China

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-273
Author(s):  
Constance Lever-Tracy ◽  
David Ip
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
Opening Up

This article explores two new and related phenomena of the late twentieth century that will surely play a major role in shaping the world of the twenty-first: the economic development and opening up of China, and the emergence onto the world economic stage of diaspora Chinese businesses, producing a significant, identifiably Chinese current within global capitalism. Each of these has, we believe, been crucial and perhaps indispensable to the other.

scholarly journals Strategi Pembinaan Keagamaan Muallaf Dayak Meratus Kalimantan Selatan

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Nadzmi Akbar Baderun ◽  
Samsul Rani
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interactive Analysis ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Family Approach ◽  
Inhibiting Factors ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
New Religion ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Made In

Abstract A person becomes a Muslim convert because he believes in Islamic teachings' goodness, benefits, and truth. On the other hand, converts of Dayak Meratus generally still have many shortcomings and problems carrying out their new religion. Thus, the guidance of Dayak Meratus converts must be carried out by Muslims. It is still unclear that the guidance carried out for Dayak Meratus converts raises how the basic strategy for cultivating Dayak Meratus converts in South Kalimantan is necessary. Religion, supporting and inhibiting factors for converting. Data collection was carried out by observing, interviewing, and opening up documents that could present facts and events in the field. The interactive analysis process is in the following order: data collection, data condensation, data modeling, and describing and verifying conclusions. This research found that the convergence coaching program was made in detail by coaches who were in the field to suit field conditions. Dayak Meratus converts' religious guidance is carried out by using a family approach, warmth, meeting intensity or always being close to converts, teaching the practice of worship, muamalah, and instilling faith. The inhibiting factors for conversion are; lack of dai, converts are scattered over a wide area, it is challenging to gather at one place, the busyness of converts who make a living to a remote area.  

scholarly journals (Re) Pensar a formação de Professores pelo caminho da cooperação

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Jose Wnilson Figueiredo ◽  
Adriana Salete Loss ◽  
Daniela Ghisleni Figueiredo
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Formación Docente

A partir de uma experiência pedagógica, o presente artigo pretende estabelecer uma interlocução a respeito da implantação de uma formação de professores, por meio de uma metodologia de cunho coletivo, ancorada em uma razão solidária, sustentada na cooperação em oposição à hegemonia da razão neoliberal individualista, vigente na atualidade. Para tanto, nos amparamos nas categorias da ética da alteridade e do diálogo como fundamentos para a criação e  recriação de práticas políticas e pedagógicas com vistas à abertura de possíveis caminhos para a constituição de um professor disponível ao outro e ao coletivo (escola e sociedade), bem como do surgimento de uma educação pautada pela cooperação e que, em última instância, contribua para a edificação de uma civilização comunitária. A percepção é que a efetivação do sugerido é essencial para uma formação docente libertária.Palavras-chave: Formação de Professores. Cooperação. Razão Neoliberal.(Re) Thinking about teacher training on the path of cooperationAbstractBased on a pedagogical experience, this article intends to establish an interlocution regarding the implementation of a teacher training, through a collective methodology, anchored in a solidary reason, sustained in cooperation in opposition to the hegemony of the neoliberal individualist reason, currently in force. To this end, we rely on the categories of the ethics of alterity and dialogue as foundations for the creation and re-creation of political and pedagogical practices with a view to opening up possible paths for the constitution of a teacher available to the other and to the collective (school and society), as well as the emergence of an education based on cooperation and ultimately contributing to the building of a community civilization.  The perception is that the implementation of what is suggested is essential for a libertarian teacher training.Keywords: Teacher Training. Cooperation. Neoliberal Reason.(Re)Pensar la formación del profesorado a través del camino de la cooperaciónRESUMENA partir de una experiencia pedagógica, el presente artículo pretende establecer una interlocución acerca de la implantación de una formación de profesores, por medio de una metodología de cuño colectivo, anclada en una razón solidaria, sostenida en la cooperación en oposición a la hegemonía de la razón neoliberal individualista, vigente en la actualidad. Para ello, nos amparamos en las categorías de la ética de la alteridad y del diálogo como fundamentos para la creación y recreación de prácticas políticas y pedagógicas con miradas a la apertura de posibles caminos para la constitución de un profesor disponible al otro y al colectivo (escuela y sociedad), así como del surgimiento de una educación pautada por la cooperación y que, en última instancia, contribuya a la edificación de una civilización comunitaria. La percepción es que la efectividad de lo sugerido es esencial para una formación docente libertaria.Palabras Clave: Formación de Profesores. Cooperación. Razón Neoliberal.

scholarly journals Dynamics of Continuity and Change: Shifts in Labour Relations in the Potosí Mines (1680–1812)

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (S24) ◽  
pp. 93-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rossana Barragán Romano
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The One

AbstractLabour relations in the silver mines of Potosí are almost synonymous with the mita, a system of unfree work that lasted from the end of the sixteenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century. However, behind this continuity there were important changes, but also other forms of work, both free and self-employed. The analysis here is focused on how the “polity” contributed to shape labour relations, especially from the end of the seventeenth century and throughout the eighteenth century. This article scrutinizes the labour policies of the Spanish monarchy on the one hand, which favoured certain economic sectors and regions to ensure revenue, and on the other the initiatives both of mine entrepreneurs and workers – unfree, free, and self-employed – who all contributed to changing the system of labour.

Ghostly (Re-)Semblances and Specular (Con-)Figurations

2019 ◽  
pp. 69-93
Author(s):  
Raymond Aaron Younis
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Risk And Uncertainty ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Authentic Communication ◽  
Opening Up

Many thinkers conceptualize authentic communication in terms of an interpersonal encounter, for example between an “I” and a “you,” a living subject and a living subject, unmediated by objects, electronic gadgets, or ICTs (informatics and communication technologies), or through an authentic human dialogue involving openness, choice, freedom, courage, and almost always, some risk and uncertainty. In the elevated language of Buber and Maritain one might say an existentially charged encounter between two (or more) beings involves opening up to each other, calling each to the other, face to face, thus allowing living truth to emerge.

Introduction: Refocus on Tarkovsky

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Sergey Toymentsev
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Film History ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Film Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Religious Cult ◽  
The One ◽  
Opening Up

This introduction outlines the main tendencies in Tarkovsky studies, the most salient of which are English-language auteur studies, methodologically based in film history and formalist analysis, and Russian-language hagiographic and quasi-theological monographs fostering the religious cult of the director. This chapter argues that most Tarkovsky scholars trained in Slavic studies are somewhat reluctant to enter into interdisciplinary dialogue with other film theories and philosophical approaches by relying more on the traditional (empirically oriented) methods of film analysis developed by film history and film hermeneutics. This anthology, the chapter argues, attempts to overcome the methodological narrowness of Anglophone auteur studies on Tarkovsky on the one hand and Russophone hagiographic zeal on the other by opening up the field to different theoretical approaches.

Software Agents

2011 ◽  
pp. 798-806
Author(s):  
Stanislaw Stanek ◽  
Maciej Gawinecki ◽  
Malgorzata Pankowska ◽  
Shahram Rahimi
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Internal State ◽  
Software Agents ◽  
Software Agent ◽  
The Other ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Intelligent Tools

The origins of the software agent concept are often traced back to the pioneers of artificial intelligence—John Mc Carthy, the creator of LISP programming language, and Carl Hewitt, the father of distributed artificial intelligence (DAI). Kay (1984, p. 84) states that: …the idea of an agent originated with John McCarthy in the mid-1950s, and the term was coined by Oliver G. Selfridge a few years later, when they were both at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They had in view a system that, when given a goal, could carry out the details of the appropriate computer operations and could ask for and receive advice, offered in human terms, when it was stuck. An agent would be a ‘soft robot’ living and doing its business within the computer’s world. Nwana (1996, p. 205), on the other hand, claims that: …software agents have evolved from multi-agent systems (MAS), which in turn form one of three broad areas which fall under DAI, the other two being Distributed Problem Solving (DPS) and Parallel Artificial Intelligence (PAI). (…) The concept of an agent (…) can be traced back to the early days of research into DAI in the 1970s – indeed, to Carl Hewitt’s concurrent Actor model. In this model, Hewitt proposed the concept of a self-contained, interactive and concurrently-executing object which he termed ‘Actor’. This object had some encapsulated internal state and could respond to messages from other similar objects1. The software agent concept meant, in the first place, replacing the idea of an expert, which was at the core of earlier support systems, with the metaphor of an assistant. Until 1990s, decision support systems (DSS) were typically built around databases, models, expert systems, rules, simulators, and so forth. Although they could offer considerable support to the rational manager, whose decision making style would rely on quantitative terms, they had little to offer to managers who were guided by intuition. Software agents promised a new paradigm in which DSS designers would aim to augment the capabilities of individuals and organizations by deploying intelligent tools and autonomous assistants. The concept thus heralded a pivotal change in the way computer support is devised. For one thing, it called for a certain degree of intelligence on the part of the computerized tool; for another, it shifted emphasis from the delivery of expert advice toward providing support for the user’s creativity (King, 1993).

Ghosted subjectivities in Margo Lanagan’s ‘The Point of Roses’

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karima Thomas
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Disturbing Force ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The One ◽  
Opening Up

This article examines the tropes of ghosting in Margo Lanagan’s ‘The Point of Roses’ in relation to Judith Butler’s theory of the performative construction of identity through reiteration and foreclosure. The story illustrates the ghosting effect of normative subjectivities and the spectral, disruptive return of the contingent, socially erased subjectivities. Ghosting is considered in the light of the dual nature of the spectral as ‘a dispossessing erasure or disappearance’, and also a ‘powerful ability to rematerialize as a disturbing force’ (Maria del Pilar Blanco and Ester Peeren). In this sense, the ghost is that which is ontologically invisible because of absence/erasure; but which is also visible because it is haunting those who try to erase it. The article examines the role of the uncanny in disrupting the ontological conditions of time, space, character, substance and language. Then, it focuses on the traces of invisibility as signs of erasure and foreclosure that are meant to institute and suture an identity, while relegating other layers of subjectivity to oblivion. Finally, the article studies the disruptive return of the excluded and its dual consequences on the haunted subject, on the one hand by establishing a liminal condition of unknowing and, on the other hand, by opening up to a condition of ‘transformative recognition’ (Avery Gordon).

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