CAREERS, COMMUNITIES, AND INDUSTRY EVOLUTION: LINKS TO COMPLEXITY THEORY

2001 ◽  
Vol 05 (02) ◽  
pp. 239-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL B. ARTHUR ◽  
ROBERT J. DEFILLIPPI ◽  
VALERIE J. LINDSAY
Keyword(s):  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Industry Evolution ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Independent Film ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Boat Building ◽  
Film Making ◽  
Principal Unit

Traditional views of industry evolution focus on the company as their principal unit of analysis. We offer an alternative view that links between workers' careers and successive community, company and industry effects. We apply this view to evidence from independent film-making, and suggest a conception of the career, involving three "ways of knowing", to underlie these links. We next explore two more industry examples, the New Zealand boat building industry and the Linux operating system in the software industry, which provide further support for the alternative view proposed, as well as extending it to consider the influence of the World Wide Web. We see all three industry examples as illustrating a range of ideas in complexity theory. We propose that a career-centric view provides a useful basis for the further exploration and application of complexity theory to industrial life.

Tourism as a Complex System

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob McKercher ◽  
Bruce Prideaux
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Variable Progression

The last chapter examined Butler’s and Plog’s lifecycle models. They suggest that tourism works as a linear, predictable manner, moving logically through a pre-determined lifecycle. While the speed of change may be variable, progression through the stages up to and possibly including decline seems inevitable. These models and the models identified earlier in this book share a number of features in common. They recognize that any tourism system begins with the tourist and that also any system needs some destination features and a linkage between the tourist and the destination. The models all have a number of advantages helping us to understand the constituent parts of tourism and some of the simple linkages between elements. They are also deficient in a number of areas, though, for they do not work in practice. This chapter takes an alternative view to the organization and evolution of tourism by looking at tourism from the perspective of complexity theory. In the last 20 years, complexity theory has made strong inroads into management disciplines, but has only recently gained limited interest in the tourism sector, notably from Rodolfo Baggio (Baggio, 2008; Scott, Baggio and Cooper, 2008; Sainaghi and Baggio, 2017).

Deepening Intentionality and Linguisticality With Nothingness: An Eastern Perspective on the Fusion of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 479-485
Author(s):  
Zitong Wei
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Predicate Logic ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Holistic Perspective ◽  
Analytical Perspective

This article provides an Eastern perspective on the fusion of phenomenology and hermeneutics. Moving from the perspective of being to nothingness, I look at predicate logic and the basho of nothingness. Based on examinations of being within the pre-dichotomized gestalt of lived experience, I argue that phenomenology and hermeneutics are inseparable. The holistic perspective suggests that researchers adopt basho as a unit of analysis and take relational persona as an analytical perspective. The article concludes with a discussion on embodied being and an alternative view of transferability. It is expected that qualitative researchers engage in philosophical hermeneutics and cross-cultural dialogues to extend understandings of relational being and create new possibilities for qualitative inquiry.

American Independent Horror

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-158
Author(s):  
Bryan Turnock
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Attractive Alternative ◽  
Independent Film ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
Living Dead ◽  
American Horror Film ◽  
Social Turmoil ◽  
Film Making

This chapter assesses the emergence of American independent horror, looking at George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968). By the mid-1960s, the traditional Hollywood studio system was responsible for only around 20 per cent of America's film production. The remainder came from independent film-makers and from films made outside of the United States, where labour and locations were cheaper. The 'New Wave' movements in countries such as Japan, France, Britain, and Czechoslovakia introduced new styles of film-making to American cinemagoers, who found them an attractive alternative to the classical Hollywood feature film. As such, the late 1960s saw enormous changes in American cinema, including within the horror genre. Influenced by social, political and cultural upheavals occurring in the country at the time, 1968 is often cited as the dawn of the 'modern American horror film'. The chapter considers how political and social turmoil in America led to a growing number of independent film-makers actively working against the industry establishment, taking advantage of the heavily diminished influence of the major studios, and producing films which rejected Hollywood conservatism and deliberately pushed the boundaries of acceptability.

Dog at My Feet: A Moment of Identity Construction within Dissertation Acknowledgements

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-240
Author(s):  
Ruth Billany
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Generic Structure ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Human Animal

Abstract Human-animal studies (has) is a legitimate and multidisciplinary academic endeavor. In the last three decades, there has been a proliferation of articles revealing multiple ways of knowing about the human-animal relationship. This paper, informed by social psychological theories, turns the mirror upon new researchers as they emerge as professional selves into academia. Post-graduate students engage multiple and sometimes contradicting identities throughout their candidatures. The unit of analysis is the dissertation acknowledgement (da) at both a structural and functional level. The das have recently become objects of serious empirical investigation as linguistic choice promotes a situated academic, cultural, and social identity in a moment of time. This paper examines the generic structure and purpose of 104 das, with a particular focus on the student-writer’s identity with relationship to nonhuman animals in their lives. Fourteen sub-themes are subsumed into thanking, reflecting, and announcing moves. A case is made that the study of das is a potentially fecund research area for a unique moment of identity construction.

The Origin, Practice and Meaning of the Free Cinema Manifesto

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 294-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Drazin
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Independent Film ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Film Making ◽  
First Time ◽  
Important Basis

In the late 1940s, the independent film quarterly Sequence, which championed a personal, committed cinema, stood for an attitude towards film-making that provided an important basis for the development of the Free Cinema movement in the following decade. It was in Sequence that the phrase ‘Free Cinema’ was coined for the first time. This article traces the early development of the Free Cinema ethos in Sequence magazine and follows the steps by which the idea was turned into reality. It singles out Lindsay Anderson as the most influential figure in both the genesis and direction of the movement. After its formal end in 1959, Free Cinema lived on most obviously in the British New Wave of the 1960s, but its characteristics defied easy analysis. Discussing the legacy of the Free Cinema, the article explores its contradictory, subjective nature and examines the dominant role that Anderson continued to play in determining how it came to be understood.

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