Dynamic Networking by Entrepreneurs

2019 ◽  
pp. 155-175
Author(s):  
Tom Elfring ◽  
Willem Hulsink
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Critical Events ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Oriented Response ◽  
Network Connections ◽  
Resource Requirements ◽  
Challenging Environment ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way ◽  
Entrepreneurial Networking

Entrepreneurs are active networkers; network connections change over time, new contacts are added, and others are dropped. Entrepreneurial networking is an integral part of entrepreneurial processes and can be a strategic and goal-oriented response to resource requirements; it can also be effectual and driven by an individual and collective desire to meet and interact. This chapter examines how entrepreneurs change their network and use a variety of actions and strategies to engage with friends, family, partners, and strangers. Although entrepreneurial networking in part is driven by critical events and crises as triggers, individual differences in motivation and ability also affect the way entrepreneurs respond and use networking in an uncertain and challenging environment.

scholarly journals Self-organizing dominance hierarchies in a wild primate population

2015 ◽  
Vol 282 (1814) ◽  
pp. 20151512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Franz ◽  
Emily McLean ◽  
Jenny Tung ◽  
Jeanne Altmann ◽  
Susan C. Alberts
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Dominance Hierarchies ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Winner And Loser Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Over Time

Linear dominance hierarchies, which are common in social animals, can profoundly influence access to limited resources, reproductive opportunities and health. In spite of their importance, the mechanisms that govern the dynamics of such hierarchies remain unclear. Two hypotheses explain how linear hierarchies might emerge and change over time. The ‘prior attributes hypothesis’ posits that individual differences in fighting ability directly determine dominance ranks. By contrast, the ‘social dynamics hypothesis’ posits that dominance ranks emerge from social self-organization dynamics such as winner and loser effects. While the prior attributes hypothesis is well supported in the literature, current support for the social dynamics hypothesis is limited to experimental studies that artificially eliminate or minimize individual differences in fighting abilities. Here, we present the first evidence supporting the social dynamics hypothesis in a wild population. Specifically, we test for winner and loser effects on male hierarchy dynamics in wild baboons, using a novel statistical approach based on the Elo rating method for cardinal rank assignment, which enables the detection of winner and loser effects in uncontrolled group settings. Our results demonstrate (i) the presence of winner and loser effects, and (ii) that individual susceptibility to such effects may have a genetic basis. Taken together, our results show that both social self-organization dynamics and prior attributes can combine to influence hierarchy dynamics even when agonistic interactions are strongly influenced by differences in individual attributes. We hypothesize that, despite variation in individual attributes, winner and loser effects exist (i) because these effects could be particularly beneficial when fighting abilities in other group members change over time, and (ii) because the coevolution of prior attributes and winner and loser effects maintains a balance of both effects.

One Tribe, One Style? Paradigms in the Historiography of African Art

1984 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 163-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Political History ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
National Character ◽  
Thomas Kuhn ◽  
African Art ◽  
German Expressionism ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

While the historiography of art as an academic discipline can hardly be construed as a science, it is nevertheless governed by certain dominant paradigms in both of the senses that Thomas Kuhn intended. First, at any point in time there is a constellation of beliefs, values, and techniques shared by the community of scholars who comprise the discipline known as art history. This can be further broken down, altered, and refined for the various sub-fields, but taken together, the separate facets constitute a “way of seeing” art history which differs substantially from the “way of seeing,” say, political history.Applying Kuhn's second and more rigorous sense, the historiography of art is dominated by certain paradigms which serve as exemplars or models of puzzle-solutions. While these change over time (it is no longer permissible to ascribe German expressionism to “national character,” for example), they are so powerful that they function as unquestioned assumptions when in force. Even more importantly, they are frequently invisible because they are rarely made explicit. In European art history, the dominant paradigms have coalesced into entities such as “The Baroque” or “Mannerism” which are largely ontological models used to simplify the otherwise intractable complexity of European art styles and movements.

Formations of Sovereignty at the Frontier of the Modern State

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Finn Stepputat
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Political Landscapes ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

This article discusses the recent revision of the notion of sovereignty that emphasizes de facto rather than de jure sovereignty, understanding sovereignty as an effect of performative claims to sovereignty. As an implication of this approach, we come to see political landscapes as formed by multiple, overlapping, coexisting, and sometimes competing claims to sovereignty operating within and across boundaries. The article suggests using “formations of sovereignty” as a way of understanding these political landscapes and the way they change over time in specific areas. Empirically, the article analyzes different formations of sovereignty in a Guatemalan municipality at the border with Mexico, from before the civil war of the early 1980s to the present.

scholarly journals Bróderes in arms

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 648-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Gang Violence ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Socialization Processes ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

Drawing on longitudinal ethnographic research that has been ongoing since 1996, this article explores the way that gangs socialize individuals into violent norms and practices in Nicaragua. It shows how different types of gang violence can be related to distinct socialization processes and mechanisms, tracing how these dynamically articulate individual agency, group dynamics and contextual circumstances, albeit in ways that change over time. As such, the article highlights how gang socialization is not only a variable multilayered process, but also a very volatile one, which suggests that the socialization of violence and its consequences are not necessarily enduring.

scholarly journals Evolving Architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Raza Mehdi
Keyword(s):  
Change Over Time ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
And Function ◽  
Intended Use ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

The way one uses and operates within a space will continue to change over time as needs and desires evolve. However, the success of a space is often dependent on several programmatic elements that enable an intended use. Thus, when looking at changes in needs and desires, time is a factor that can impact a building’s program and function. Subsequently, architecture as a notion cannot afford to be static. Therefore, it is evident that there is a need for an evolving architecture with programmatic elements which can be continually altered as required. Through this, a buildings ability to evolve will then allow it to facilitate any inevitable change over extended periods; ensuring that architecture is not stationary in time. With an evolving architecture being the thesis position, this project argues for an architectural form that can constantly be transformed to accommodate a function and its changing programmatic needs.

scholarly journals Ignoring individual differences in times of assessment in growth curve modeling

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Coulombe ◽  
James P. Selig ◽  
Harold D. Delaney
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Growth Curve ◽  
Type I Error ◽  
Growth Curve Modeling ◽  
Type I ◽  
Residual Variance ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Curve Modeling ◽  
Over Time

Researchers often collect longitudinal data to model change over time in a phenomenon of interest. Inevitably, there will be some variation across individuals in specific time intervals between assessments. In this simulation study of growth curve modeling, we investigate how ignoring individual differences in time points when modeling change over time relates to convergence and admissibility of solutions, bias in estimates of parameters, efficiency, power to detect change over time, and Type I error rate. We manipulated magnitude of the individual differences in assessment times, distribution of assessment times, magnitude of change over time, number of time points, and sample size. In contrast to the correct analysis, ignoring individual differences in time points frequently led to inadmissible solutions, especially with few time points and small samples, regardless of the specific magnitude of individual differences that were ignored. Mean intercept and slope were generally estimated without bias. Ignoring individual differences in time points sometimes yielded overestimated intercept and slope variances and underestimated intercept–slope covariance and residual variance. Parameter efficiency as well as power and Type I error rates for the linear slope were unaffected by the type of analysis.

In the dominion of artefacts

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 356-359
Author(s):  
Madhav Gadgil
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

Evolutionary biology is above all concerned with the way life on earth and its setting change over time. The problem posed by Daily and Ehrlich, of how humans, the myriads of organisms that humans carry around in their bodies and the stage on which they interact have been changing over time, may then be viewed as one of the concerns of this discipline.

The Expiration of Commitments in Adelaide Procter's “Homeward Bound”

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 435-444
Author(s):  
Emily Harrington
Keyword(s):  
Market Value ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
Queen Victoria ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Employment Of Women ◽  
Adelaide Anne Procter ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

It has been a long time since the poetry of Adelaide Anne Procter, a favorite of Queen Victoria, captured much interest from readers of poetry, whether they be anthology aficionados, scholars, or students. Now considered a minor poet of the period, she was nevertheless a quintessential poet activist of her day, raising money for and working with the Providence Row Night Refuge, editing and contributing to the English Women's Journal alongside the Langham Place Feminists and the Society for the Employment of Women. She published volumes of her own poems, one of which ran to as many as nineteen editions between 1858 and 1881, and her work was featured regularly in Charles Dickens's periodical Household Words. Her legacy stands as a powerful testimony to the way ideas and tastes change over time. Full of angels, Christmases, quietly suffering children, and pious nuns (she converted to Catholicism in 1851), her poetry is often dismissed as sentimental and clichéd. A glance at her forms reveals many straightforward tetrameters with expected alternating, end-stopped rhymes, an easiness that seems to ally form and content. If Adorno had ever taken the time to read her poetry, he probably would have hated it, not just for its Catholic faith and its frequent focus on sin and redemption, but for its attempt “to work at the level of fundamental attitudes,” typical of committed art. Consider these lines from her frequently anthologized “Homeless,” which asks readers to recognize that their society takes better care of animals, criminals, and commodities than of the homeless poor: For each man knows the market valueOf silk or woolen or cotton…But in counting the riches of EnglandI think our Poor are forgotten.

Medicine, Property and the Law in Britain 1800–1914

1988 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 853-870 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Crowther ◽  
Brenda M. White
Keyword(s):  
Change Over Time ◽  
Dominant Classes ◽  
The Law ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

Property, in spite of its solid sound, is an elusive idea. As C. B. MacPherson puts it:The actual institution, and the way people see it, and hence the meaning they give to the word, all change over time… The changes are related to changes in the purposes which society or the dominant classes in society expect the institution of property to serve.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Phenomenological Tradition ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology contains thirty-seven new essays by leading scholars in the field. The essays all highlight historical influences, connections, and developments and provide an in-depth coverage of the development of phenomenology; one that allows for a better comprehension and assessment of the continuity as well as diversity of the phenomenological tradition. The handbook is divided into three distinct parts. The first part contains chapters that address the way phenomenology has been influenced by earlier periods or figures in the history of philosophy. The second part contains chapters targeting prominent phenomenologists: How was their work affected by earlier figures, how did their own views change over time, and what kind of influence did they exert on subsequent thinkers? The contributions in the third part trace various core topics such as subjectivity, intersubjectivity, embodiment, spatiality, and imagination in the work of different phenomenologists, in order to explore how the notions were transformed, enriched, and expanded up through the century. The handbook will be a source of insight for philosophers, students of philosophy, and for people working in other disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, who are interested in the phenomenological tradition. It is an authoritative guide to how phenomenology started, how it developed, and where it is heading.

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