Essai: Real Time/Real Space Research: Connecting Action and Reflection in Organization Studies

Metamorphosis ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Calori
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Space Research ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Reflective Practitioners

This essai discusses real-time/real-space research in which the time-space of the researcher and the time-space of the researched overlap, and in which action and reflection are intimately connected through fusion or cooperation. The paper first presents the principles of a pragmatic epistemology, and then briefly reviews real-time/real-space research strategies, particularly co-authorship, by reflective practitioners and pragmatic researchers who get involved together in theory building.

scholarly journals Current Trends in Random Walks on Random Lattices

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1148
Author(s):  
Jewgeni H. Dshalalow ◽  
Ryan T. White
Keyword(s):  
Random Walk ◽  
Random Walks ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Escape Time ◽  
The Real ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
One Step ◽  
Time Position

In a classical random walk model, a walker moves through a deterministic d-dimensional integer lattice in one step at a time, without drifting in any direction. In a more advanced setting, a walker randomly moves over a randomly configured (non equidistant) lattice jumping a random number of steps. In some further variants, there is a limited access walker’s moves. That is, the walker’s movements are not available in real time. Instead, the observations are limited to some random epochs resulting in a delayed information about the real-time position of the walker, its escape time, and location outside a bounded subset of the real space. In this case we target the virtual first passage (or escape) time. Thus, unlike standard random walk problems, rather than crossing the boundary, we deal with the walker’s escape location arbitrarily distant from the boundary. In this paper, we give a short historical background on random walk, discuss various directions in the development of random walk theory, and survey most of our results obtained in the last 25–30 years, including the very recent ones dated 2020–21. Among different applications of such random walks, we discuss stock markets, stochastic networks, games, and queueing.

scholarly journals Real-space and Real-time TDDFT Analysis for Optical Properties of 11-cis Retinal

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 203-205
Author(s):  
Shiho TANAKA ◽  
Mitsuki TOOGOSHI ◽  
Yasunari ZEMPO
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Real Space

scholarly journals Real-time and real-space program tuned in K-computer

2015 ◽  
Vol 640 ◽  
pp. 012066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Zempo ◽  
N Akino ◽  
M Ishida ◽  
E Tomiyama ◽  
H Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Space Program

Night and Organization Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 1513-1527
Author(s):  
Monika Müller
Keyword(s):  
New Materialism ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Time Space ◽  
And Control ◽  
Shed Light

In this essay, I want to shed light on the phenomena of night and nightwork as important topics which have been so far overlooked in organization studies. Inspired by insights of new materialism (Barad), I propose and investigate night as ‘time-space’, and present intertwined dimensions (temporal, spatial, social, material, etc.) of intra-actions between human beings and night. To better understand our intra-actions and entanglements with night, I provide a short historical overview which highlights past attempts to turn nightwork, once a forbidden and ungodly occupation, into a common and laudable one. I then discuss current efforts to manage and control certain dimensions of night (temporal/material and spatial/social) as well as aspects of night and nightwork that are not entirely manageable. The essay advocates going beyond traditional ontological dualisms by stressing our entanglements and intra-actions with night, thus advancing our understanding of nightwork, related bodily limitations and resistance at night. These topics call for further studies of organizations and work at night.

Political discourse and mobility of worlds: Arguments for methodological narrative\institutional dualism

2020 ◽  
pp. 053901842097701
Author(s):  
Simon Smith ◽  
Jiří Kabele
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Organizational Fields ◽  
Organizational Interventions ◽  
Political Office ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
Important Position

Methodological narrative\institutional dualism was developed as an epistemological strategy to facilitate an approach to the study of political discourse that incorporates figures of disorder into the construction of order. The symmetrization of various theories of narration and argumentation and related analytical research approaches enables an examination of how discursive world-making engages syncretically narrative and argumentative repertoires of rhetoric and hermeneutics to ensure interconnected discursive and organizational interventions. Actors strive to occupy a strategically important position in discourse-worlds as the prelude to their occupation of influential power positions in organizational fields. Such a two-fold – textual and pragma-dialectical – interventionism can be uncovered by a ‘perspective interplay’ between complementary research strategies, one based on a narrative\routine duality (focused on communicability by studying the textualized sequencing of speech acts), the other on a duality of the pragmatic use of plot\argument (focused on the pragmatic implications of speech acts by studying the political claim-making accompanying strategic maneuvering). Our efforts at theory-building are illustrated by an empirical probe into a moment in a Czech election campaign (a three-day media dialogical network) in which the metaphor of dinosaurs was deployed as a powerful trope by candidates, opponents and journalists in credibility and consistency tests with respect to qualification for political office.

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