Conceiving Perfectible Theories in Management Through Adaptive Framing

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
William Acar ◽  
Jaume Franquesa ◽  
Rev. Fr. Jino O. Mwaka
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Theory Evaluation ◽  
Ex Ante ◽  
Management Schemes ◽  
Constructivist Perspective ◽  
Formal Theories

Extant studies of theory evaluation rely on hindsight even though editors' entreaties are meant to be studied ex ante and applied in real time. The authors elaborate on the definitional requirements of theory and ways to appraise it. The authors present a synoptic chronology of the main trends in management theory evaluation, and discuss the methodological differences between formal theories and actual management schemes. This discussion leads us to adopt a constructivist perspective and replace “Popperian falsifiability” when inapplicable to management. The authors then introduce the concept of adaptive framing as a tripartite process subsuming the criteria of novelty, practicability and extendibility through consistency, which the authors argue to be the necessary requirements for perfectible theory-building in management.

scholarly journals The probabilistic innovation theoretical framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris W. Callaghan
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Knowledge Management Theory ◽  
Knowledge Problem

Background: Despite technological advances that offer new opportunities for solving societal problems in real time, knowledge management theory development has largely not kept pace with these developments. This article seeks to offer useful insights into how more effective theory development in this area could be enabled.Aim: This article suggests different streams of literature for inclusion into a theoretical framework for an emerging stream of research, termed ‘probabilistic innovation’, which seeks to develop a system of real-time research capability. The objective of this research is therefore to provide a synthesis of a range of diverse literatures, and to provide useful insights into how research enabled by crowdsourced research and development can potentially be used to address serious knowledge problems in real time.Setting: This research suggests that knowledge management theory can provide an anchor for a new stream of research contributing to the development of real-time knowledge problem solving.Methods: This conceptual article seeks to re-conceptualise the problem of real-time research and locate this knowledge problem in relation to a host of rapidly developing streams of literature. In doing so, a novel perspective of societal problem-solving is enabled.Results: An analysis of theory and literature suggests that certain rapidly developing streams of literature might more effectively contribute to societally important real-time research problem solving if these steams are united under a theoretical framework with this goal as its explicit focus.Conclusion: Although the goal of real-time research is as yet not attainable, research that contributes to its attainment may ultimately make an important contribution to society.

Comparative Management Theory: Jungle, Zoo or Fossil Bed?

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Gordon Redding
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Middle Range Theory ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Comparative Management ◽  
Middle Range ◽  
Range Theory

Earlier reviews of the state of comparative management theory are considered and summarized and lead to the following conclusions: the literature suffers from an excess of simple empirical reportage; theoretical development is weak in the middle ground and at higher levels; there is a bias away from ethnographic work; perspectives tend to be narrow and partial. Some progress is visible as a result of the unifying work of Hofstede but its contribution also entails new avenues of enquiry about the determinants and consequences of culture. Some middle-range theory building is now occurring in specific fields such as expatriation, leadership, and HRM techniques, but it remains tentative. Dilemmas stemming from altern ative frameworks of meaning and complex causation pose severe epistemological challenges and require new approaches to comparison. The economics-based positivist paradigm is seriously inadequate for such challenges, but dangerously imperialist. A new, more theoretically sophisticated, approach is advocated and outlined as a route for progress.

scholarly journals Insights and experiences from assessing the added value of PROSNOW, a prediction system to support snow management in Alpine ski resorts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Köberl ◽  
Hugues François ◽  
Carlo Carmagnola ◽  
Pirmin Ebner ◽  
Daniel Günther ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Significant Saving ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ski Resort ◽  
Ski Resorts ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Ex Ante

<p>Within the H2020 project PROSNOW (www.prosnow.org), a demonstrator of a forecasting system that aims at increasing the anticipatory power of ski resorts in the field of snow management has been developed and tested. The PROSNOW® demonstrator, which includes a web-based user interface, represents a meteorological prediction and snow management system with the aim to provide improved anticipation capabilities at various time-scales, spanning from a few days to the seasonal scale of several months. The system holds significant potential to increase the resilience of socio-economic stakeholders and support their real-time adaptation. However, it is expected to take some time until users will gain confidence with the service, completely realize its power and its limitations, and learn to use it in the most effective way to exploit its potential. Although the final actual added value of the PROSNOW® prediction and snowmaking system can thus only be assessed several years after its initial implementation, some ex-ante and preliminary ex-post valuations have already been carried out following the real-time testing of the demonstrator in nine Alpine pilot ski resorts in the winter season 2019/20.</p><p>We applied two different approaches to assess the added value of PROSNOW®: (i) a simulation-based approach and (ii) a survey-based approach. The simulation-based approach consisted of the ex-ante valuation of PROSNOW®’s cost saving potential in the field of snowmaking, using meteorological hindcast data and simulations from snowpack models. The approach is based on decision theory and aims at estimating the cost savings achievable by using the PROSNOW® system to support a ski resort’s daily and strategic snowmaking decisions, compared to the information sources and strategies used so far. In the survey-based approach, which included both ex-ante and ex-post elements, pilot ski resorts were asked to (e)valuate the PROSNOW® demonstrator, based on their experiences from the real-time testing in the winter season 2019/20. The survey included questions about the perceived forecasting accuracy, observed positive impacts, the experienced as well as expected usefulness of the PROSNOW® demonstrator for different areas of application within the ski resort, and the ski resort’s willingness to pay (WTP). For the latter, both direct and indirect stated preference methods (e.g. limit conjoint analysis) were applied.</p><p>Both, simulations and survey results revealed that increases in the ability to anticipate weather and snow conditions bear significant saving potentials for some ski resorts. Areas of application for which PROSNOW® is considered particularly useful include snowmaking decisions for the upcoming hours and days, the optimization of water and energy use and avoidance of snow overproduction. Even though some pilot ski resorts experienced problems with the demonstrator, the majority indicated to be willing to pay a non-zero price for the service, ranging from 2,500€ to 12,700€ per season.</p>

scholarly journals KONSTRUKTIVISME DALAM PEMBELAJARAN SAINS DI SD: TINJAUAN EPISTEMOLOGI, ONTOLOGI, DAN KERAGUAN DALAM PRAKSISNYA

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lily Barlia
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Science Learning ◽  
School Science ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Elementary School Science ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
Constructivist Perspective ◽  
Alternative Solutions

Abstract: Constructivism in Science Learning in Elementary Schools: Epistemological and Ontological Perspectives and Doubts in the Praxis. A constructivist perspective focuses on children’s contribution to the construction of knowledge. Constructivism believes that a child is a real inquirer and discoverer who is actively engaged in building theories about the world and the way it works without the aid of direct instructions. The implication is that teachers have to give wider mandates to students, to provide them with contexts for experimentation to occur, and to facilitate theory building by providing helpful experiences. Epistemologically and ontologically, there are still doubts about the application in practice. This, however, should not be a constraint for science teachers to implement basic principles of constructivism as one of the alternative solutions to educational reform and movement in the elementary school science. Keywords: constructivism, science learning science, elementary school science

scholarly journals Human Resource Management At The Crossroads

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narayan Krishna Prabhu
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Choice Making ◽  
Is Management ◽  
Financial Scandals ◽  
Work Done

Getting work done through other people is management; heterogeneities and complexities are managerial issues. Studies in management in 20th and 21st centuries focused on principles of management and management practices. The management theory jungle continues to be dense and impenetrable. Pessimism rules the roast with organizations perceived as insensitive. There is a divide between theory and practice. Epistemology of management practice and management theory building needs to be understood. HRM processes have to be evaluated along with choice making. Theories have to be self fulfilling by changing conditions under which they work. A number of failure stories have been analyzed, impacting several role holders. Searching for evidence for the various failures have provided live instances of actual situations which have caused trauma to the role holders. Financial scandals along with issues of corporate governance have generated conflict. Reviewing practices one perceives repeat errors perpetuated by managers; they are engaged in handling symptoms rather than curative aspects. Grand exits follow. Managers do not consider it safe and seem to work under such constraints. How long will they wait.

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.

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