Correction: Interactive Computations and Experiments in Stability and Transition Research

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen L. Reed ◽  
Travis S. Kocian ◽  
William Saric
Keyword(s):  
Transition Research

A Program for Transition Research

AIAA Journal ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELI RESHOTKO
Keyword(s):  
Transition Research

Regional Disparities

2019 ◽  
pp. 623-629
Author(s):  
Hans-Joachim Bürkner
Keyword(s):  
Initial Phase ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Transition Research ◽  
Neoliberal Policies

This chapter provides a stocktaking of the conceptualization of the spatial dimension of postcommunist social change. It traces the shifts in academic concepts which sought to grasp the effects of transition on the regional level and the diversification of regional trajectories. It identifies three distinct stages of transition research which represents such shifts. An initial phase of nation state-centred accounts of regional transition was followed by a period which highlighted the diversification of patterns of regional disparities, focusing on regional capitals and border regions, and establishing globalization as an important factor of new core–periphery relations and interregional competition. A final post-transition stage has been described as being dominated by socio-spatial polarization and the increasing vulnerability of regions in the face of neoliberal policies and recurring global economic crises. Formerly clear-cut concepts relating inequality to the legacies of earlier stages of transition have gradually vanished, leaving a theoretical gap.

Transformation and Transition Research: An Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Merkel ◽  
Raj Kollmorgen ◽  
Hans-Jürgen Wagener
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Meiji Restoration ◽  
Symbolic Resources ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Transition Research

Social institutions and governmental regimes are systems of action structured by values and norms. Within these systems, self-conscious actors communicate with each other using different material and symbolic resources. The systems develop and change in response to new knowledge, altered allocations of resources, and changes in values and institutions. ‘Transformation’ analyses radical systemic change from the intentional policy point of view while ‘transition’ describes the historical path along which such change is taking place. The pragmatic design of positive institutions, which is at the basis of the concept of transformation, is historically a rather recent phenomenon. Although these concepts gained prominence only with the great turnaround of 1989/90, they have a prehistory in social theory (Marx, Menger, Weber, Schumpeter, and Polanyi, for instance) and in historical development (the French and the Russian revolutions, Meiji Restoration, post-Civil War United States, for instance). Transformation research thus has at its disposal a wide field of cases and analytic levels.

scholarly journals Sport Transitions as Epiphanies

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-49
Author(s):  
Randall J. Griffiths ◽  
Heather M. Barton-Weston ◽  
David W. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Private University ◽  
Life Change ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Major Life ◽  
Interpretive Paradigm ◽  
Basic Goal ◽  
Transition Research ◽  
Example Stories ◽  
Transition Event ◽  
Significant Injury

Sport managers design development systems with the intent of retaining and advancing athletes through that system (Green, 2005). Important to this basic goal is the participant’s transition from one sport context to another. Transition research has focused primarily on elite athlete’s adaptation to career transitions as they advance at the highest levels or retire from sport (Wylleman & Lavallee, 2004). This orientation places a priority on the external transitions between sport structures before the internal, cognitive development of the athlete. This study examined the transitions of sport participants from an interpretive framework with the goal of understanding the individual’s experience of transition without it necessarily being linked to a typical external change. The sport stories of 48 students at a mid-sized, private university were collected and analyzed utilizing an interpretive paradigm. The disruption stage of these stories represents a time of crisis and transition. Denzin (2001) provided a typology for moments of crisis through four types of epiphanies: major, cumulative, illuminative, and relived. Using this typology of epiphanies can help sport managers to understand these transition events within the life of the participant. Analysis resulted in all disruptions being coded into one of the four original epiphany types. However, a large number of stories were categorized as major epiphanies. Further inductive coding yielded three sub-types of major epiphanies: major bodily, major life change, and major success. The stories within each type or subtype contained similarities in the speed of transition and the breadth of impact of the transition event. For example, stories of major bodily epiphany shared the immediate, life altering impact of significant injury while stories of cumulative shared the slow realization that the sport context had changed without the participant’s realization. Sport managers will be able to use the results of this study to understand and accommodate the pace and breadth of transition experienced by participants in their sport development systems thus maximizing the retention and advancement to the elite ranks.

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