Complex Action Methodology for Enterprise Systems (CAMES)

2021 ◽  
pp. 387-399
Author(s):  
Olaf Cames ◽  
Meghann L. Drury-Grogan
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Quantum Probability ◽  
Behavioral Pattern ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Theory Of Communicative Action

This completed action research utilizes the conceptual framework of quantum mechanics in action science field studies for bias-free behavioral data collection and quantification. The research question tied to experimental verification if action research field studies can practically utilize the theory of communicative action and the theory of quantum mechanics to contextualize the quantification with pathological and distorted behavioral pattern. The result is a quantum-like formalism that provides intermediary conceptuality for organizational intervening initiatives. This process of contextualization behavior in projects via quantum probability experimentally evidenced. The chapter concludes by reviewing the results of two experiments that the hypotheses that the theory of quantum mechanics and the theory of communicative action qualifies as a building block for a planned methodological approach to intervene and steer problematic social structures in the desired direction.

Complex Action Methodology for Enterprise Systems (CAMES)

2019 ◽  
pp. 302-314
Author(s):  
Olaf Cames ◽  
Meghann L. Drury-Grogan
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Quantum Probability ◽  
Behavioral Pattern ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Theory Of Communicative Action

This completed action research utilizes the conceptual framework of quantum mechanics in action science field studies for bias-free behavioral data collection and quantification. The research question tied to experimental verification if action research field studies can practically utilize the theory of communicative action and the theory of quantum mechanics to contextualize the quantification with pathological and distorted behavioral pattern. The result is a quantum-like formalism that provides intermediary conceptuality for organizational intervening initiatives. This process of contextualization behavior in projects via quantum probability experimentally evidenced. The chapter concludes by reviewing the results of two experiments that the hypotheses that the theory of quantum mechanics and the theory of communicative action qualifies as a building block for a planned methodological approach to intervene and steer problematic social structures in the desired direction.

scholarly journals A strategic approach for bottleneck identification in make-to-order environments: A drum-buffer-rope action research based case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aitor Lizarralde Aiastui ◽  
Unai Apaolaza Perez de Eulate ◽  
Miguel Mediavilla Guisasola
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Systematic Process ◽  
Make To Order ◽  
Strategic Perspective

Purpose: This study is focused on integrating a strategic perspective for bottleneck selection and exploitation according to the DBR methodology. The researchers developed a systematic process of four steps for the implementation of the first two steps of TOC-DBR in Make-to-Order production systems. This process was derived from the seminal work from Goldratt, introduced key insights from Resource Based View (RBV) and Practice Based View (PBV) strategic perspectives and included original contributions from the authors in understanding what purpose should be fulfilled, what decisions should be made and how the four steps should be applied.Design/methodology/approach: Given the practical nature of the research project, action research (AR) is an appropriate methodological approach, since AR aims to contribute to academic research while helping solve real-world problems.Findings: The proposed systematic process has been successfully tested in the field on a Make To Order case company. Thus, it has been answered the research question regarding systematically selecting a bottleneck and exploiting it to enhance the competitive advantage/firm performance. In fact, the new way of selecting and exploiting its bottleneck improved the results of the company, in particular business turnover and profitability. Additionally, the research process complied with the necessary criteria to assure the research quality required for AR.Originality/value: The key contributions within the systematic process (on Make-to-Order companies) are two: (1) the criteria to select the bottleneck, far beyond a load versus capacity perspective (i.e., providing a strategic perspective that was inspired by the main concepts from the Resource Based View regarding the contribution of strategic resources to sustain competitive position) and  (2) the detailed discussion on how to exploit the bottleneck, which was aligned with the Practice Based View and recognised that practices could also provide superior performance to organisations.

scholarly journals Pragmática transcendental y filosofía social: Karl Otto Apel, Jürgen Habermas y la nueva fundamentación de la Teoría Crítica

Daímon ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 155-170
Author(s):  
César Ortega Esquembre
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Theory Of Communicative Action ◽  
Normative Foundation

El objetivo de este artículo es defender que la pragmática transcendental ofrece la fundamentación normativa de la teoría crítica como teoría de la acción comunicativa. Para ello se expondrá en primer lugar el problema de la normatividad en la Teoría Crítica de la sociedad. Tras describir la forma que adquiere esta teoría tras el giro lingüístico operado por Jürgen Habermas, se reconstruirán en tercer lugar los elementos fundamentales de la pragmática transcendental apeliana y habermasiana. En cuarto y último lugar se mostrará que este modelo constituye la fundamentación normativa de la nueva teoría crítica. The aim of this paper is to argue that transcendental pragmatics constitutes the normative foundation of critical theory, understood as theory of communicative action. To that end, the issue of normativity within Critical Theory discussions is first exposed. After describing the form this theory takes from the linguistic turn carried out by Jürgen Habermas, key elements of Karl Otto Apel´s and Jürgen Habermas´ transcendental pragmatics are thirdly reconstructed. Fourth paragraph shows that this model operates as the normative foundation of the new critical theory.

Badania biograficzne rodzin więźniów. Refleksja metodologiczna Angelika Cieślikowska-Ryczko 1

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-162
Author(s):  
Angelika Cieślikowska-Ryczko
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Correctional Institution ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Parental Relationships ◽  
Biographical Research ◽  
Narrative Interview ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Autobiographical Narrative

The article deals with the life situation of the families of prisoners, in particular, parental relationships connected with the experience of incarceration in a correctional institution. During the realisation of the research I noticed many difficulties in finding contact with potential interlocutors, therefore I considered the families of prisoners as an environment “invisible in the research field”. In addition, I defined families of prisoners as marginalised and stigmatised environments. The main aim of the article is to show selected methodological dilemmas that can be encountered through the design and analysis of biographical research of family members of prisoners. The theoretical introduction of the paper as an extended definition of the penitentiary crisis allowed to characterise the dominant trends and directions of research on prisoners’ families. Further, it focused on selected problems of realisation of qualitative research (especially biographical research). I analyse the literature and present my own methodological approach based on the direction of interpretative sociology. Using the potential of the autobiographical narrative interview technique (of the German sociological school of Fritz Schütze), I collected 31 interviews with adult children of prisoners and 30 interviews with parents of prisoners. Finally, I refer to my own research experience and discuss the “usefulness and ineffectiveness” of an autobiographical narrative interview. Moreover, I characterise key reflections on the role of the researcher in obtaining autobiographical narrations. The article is an invitation to discuss the improvement of research procedures, especially in the area of research on family members of persons in prisons.

scholarly journals Testing Quantum Coherence in Stochastic Electrodynamics with Squeezed Schrödinger Cat States

Atoms ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne Huang ◽  
Herman Batelaan
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Probability Distribution ◽  
Interference Pattern ◽  
Quantum Coherence ◽  
Laser Pulses ◽  
Quantum Probability ◽  
Harmonic Oscillators ◽  
Stochastic Electrodynamics ◽  
Schrödinger Cat ◽  
Cat States

The interference pattern in electron double-slit diffraction is a hallmark of quantum mechanics. A long-standing question for stochastic electrodynamics (SED) is whether or not it is capable of reproducing such effects, as interference is a manifestation of quantum coherence. In this study, we used excited harmonic oscillators to directly test this quantum feature in SED. We used two counter-propagating dichromatic laser pulses to promote a ground-state harmonic oscillator to a squeezed Schrödinger cat state. Upon recombination of the two well-separated wavepackets, an interference pattern emerges in the quantum probability distribution but is absent in the SED probability distribution. We thus give a counterexample that rejects SED as a valid alternative to quantum mechanics.

scholarly journals A search for a stochastic archetype of quantum probability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim C Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Probability Theory ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Probability Density ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Quantum Probability ◽  
Interference Term ◽  
Mathematical Foundation ◽  
Quantum Process ◽  
Hidden Variable ◽  
Probability Densities

Abstract Superposed wavefunctions in quantum mechanics lead to a squared amplitude that introduces interference into a probability density, which has long been a puzzle because interference between probability densities exists nowhere else in probability theory. In recent years, Man’ko and coauthors have successfully reconciled quantum and classic probability using a symplectic tomographic model. Nevertheless, there remains an unexplained coincidence in quantum mechanics, namely, that mathematically, the interference term in the squared amplitude of superposed wavefunctions gives the squared amplitude the form of a variance of a sum of correlated random variables, and we examine whether there could be an archetypical variable behind quantum probability that provides a mathematical foundation that observes both quantum and classic probability directly. The properties that would need to be satisfied for this to be the case are identified, and a generic hidden variable that satisfies them is found that would be present everywhere, transforming into a process-specific variable wherever a quantum process is active. Uncovering this variable confirms the possibility that it could be the stochastic archetype of quantum probability.

scholarly journals Usability Methods and Attributes Reported in Usability Studies of Mobile Apps for Health Care Education: Protocol for a Scoping Review

10.2196/19072 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. e19072
Author(s):  
Susanne Grødem Johnson ◽  
Thomas Potrebny ◽  
Lillebeth Larun ◽  
Donna Ciliska ◽  
Nina Rydland Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Health Care Education ◽  
Care Education

Background E-learning technologies, including mobile apps, are used to a large extent in health care education. Mobile apps can provide extendable learning environments and motivate students for adaptive and collaborative learning outside the classroom context. Developers should design practical, effective, and easy-to-use mobile apps. Usability testing is an important part of app development in order to understand if apps meet the needs of users. Objective The aim of this study is to perform a scoping review of usability methods and attributes reported in usability studies of mobile apps for health care education. Methods The scoping review is guided by the methodological framework developed by Arksey & O’Malley and further developed by Levac et al and Kahlil et al. The stages we will follow are as follows: (1) identifying the research question; (2) identifying relevant studies; (3) selecting studies; (4) charting the data; and (5) summarizing and reporting the results. We have developed two research questions to meet the aim of the study, which are as follows: (1) What usability methods are used to evaluate the usability of mobile apps for health care education? and (2) What usability attributes are reported in the usability studies of mobile apps for health care education? We will apply a comprehensive search of the literature, including 10 databases, a reference search, and a search for grey literature. Two review authors will independently screen articles for eligibility. Results The initial electronic database searches were completed in March 2019. The literature search identified 14,297 unique references. Following title and abstract screening, the full texts of 369 records were obtained. The scoping review is expected to be completed in spring 2021. Conclusions We expect the overview of usability methods and attributes reported in usability studies of mobile apps for health care education to contribute to the knowledge base for researchers and developers. It will give an overview of the research field and provide researchers and developers with relevant and important information on the usability research area, including highlighting possible research gaps. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) DERR1-10.2196/19072

scholarly journals A search for a stochastic archetype of quantum probability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim C Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Probability Theory ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Probability Density ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Quantum Probability ◽  
Interference Term ◽  
Mathematical Foundation ◽  
Classical Probability ◽  
Quantum Process ◽  
Probability Densities

Abstract Superposed wavefunctions in quantum mechanics lead to a squared amplitude that introduces interference into a probability density, which has long been a puzzle because interference between probability densities exists nowhere else in probability theory. In recent years Man’ko and co-authors have successfully reconciled quantum and classical probability using a symplectic tomographic model. Nevertheless, there remains an unexplained coincidence in quantum mechanics, namely that mathematically the interference term in the squared amplitude of superposed wavefunctions has the form of a variance of a sum of correlated random variables and we examine whether there could be an archetypical variable behind quantum probability that provides a mathematical foundation that observes both quantum and classical probability directly. The properties that would need to be satisfied for this to be the case are identified, and a generic variable that satisfies them is found that would be present everywhere, transforming into a process-specific variable wherever a quantum process is active. This hidden generic variable appears to be such an archetype.

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