Social technology and Theory U

2017 ◽  
pp. 133-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Page
Keyword(s):  
Social Technology ◽  
Theory U

Social Technology: A Compendium of Short Cases

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-430
Author(s):  
Brett Considine ◽  
John Peter Krahel ◽  
Margarita M. Lenk ◽  
Diane J. Janvrin
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Regulatory Compliance ◽  
Social Technology ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Accounting Information Systems ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Technology Strategies

ABSTRACT Seven short cases highlight the need for organizational control of the use of social technology. Executives now consider the management of social technology strategies and risks to be their fourth highest priority, investing significant resources to develop effective social technology use policies (Carrick et al. 2013; Deloitte 2012; Feltham and Nichol 2012). Moreover, organizations vary their social technology investment choices depending on their objectives and their target audiences (AICPA 2013; Gallaugher and Ransbotham 2010; Kaplan and Haenlein 2010). A wide variety of case learning objectives involve applying internal control models, and developing and justifying opinions about how social technology uses and abuses affect operational, financial reporting and regulatory compliance objectives, risks, controls, and performance-monitoring activities. Instructors may utilize one or more of these cases at a time, either individually or in student groups, and in undergraduate or graduate financial accounting, accounting information systems, governance, or auditing courses.

Shared strategic reflection process by a higher education institution: A case study

2021 ◽  
pp. 089202062110309
Author(s):  
María García-Feijoo ◽  
Leire Alcaniz ◽  
Almudena Eizaguirre
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Theory U ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Process Implementation ◽  
Planning Models ◽  
Challenging Environment ◽  
The University

Business schools face social, economic, cultural, and technological changes that require constant rethinking not only of teaching and learning, but also of leadership and management. In contrast to traditional strategic planning models, this article proposes a new participatory approach for the university community, arriving at a common story and visualizing an exciting future for the school. Applying case study methodology, the paper describes a process of shared strategic reflection at a century-old European business school by following Otto Scharmer's Theory U. The process enabled achievement of shared definitions of vision, values, lines of progress, and strategic projects, and the study itself improved the participants’ perception of the process and its impact on a shared vision's generation. After process implementation, and as a general conclusion, Theory U contributed to promoting shared strategic reflection, with results that are very valuable in the highly uncertain, challenging environment in which business schools are immersed.

scholarly journals Vaidya solutions in general covariant Hořava–Lifshitz gravity without projectability: Infrared limit

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (08) ◽  
pp. 1450068 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Goldoni ◽  
M. F. A. da Silva ◽  
G. Pinheiro ◽  
R. Chan
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Gauge Field ◽  
Radiation Field ◽  
Relativity Theory ◽  
Covariant Theory ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
Theory U ◽  
General Relativity Theory ◽  
Infrared Limit ◽  
Symmetric Spacetime

In this paper, we have studied nonstationary radiative spherically symmetric spacetime, in general covariant theory (U(1) extension) of Hořava–Lifshitz (HL) gravity without the projectability condition and in the infrared (IR) limit. The Newtonian prepotential φ was assumed null. We have shown that there is not the analogue of the Vaidya's solution in the Hořava–Lifshitz Theory (HLT), as we know in the General Relativity Theory (GRT). Therefore, we conclude that the gauge field A should interact with the null radiation field of the Vaidya's spacetime in the HLT.

Macroeconomic Modeling of the Relationship Between Price and Industry Proportions

2021 ◽  
pp. 10-26
Author(s):  
Valery G. Grebennikov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Relative Price ◽  
Total Output ◽  
Social Technology ◽  
Price Ratio ◽  
Constant Ratio ◽  
Marginal Rate ◽  
Sector Model ◽  
Test Of Hypotheses ◽  
Existence And Stability ◽  
The Relationship

The article aims to examine one of the most interesting, in the authors’ opinion, applications of the two-sector model of social technology to identify the relationship between the trajectories of the relative price and the relative share of the product in the total output based on the concept of Pareto optimal, or “efficient”, trajectories of economic growth (i.e. trajectories, each point of which belongs to the surface of production opportunities). Within the framework of this concept, the ratio of prices of individual products corresponds to the marginal rates of these products’ substitution. The rates depend on the product (sectoral) structure of GDP, on the one hand, and on the available labor resources and production assets, on the other. The relationship between the investment component of the output and the growth of funds gives rise to a family of efficient trajectories, in the sense indicated above. Each of the trajectories is characterized by the joint dynamics of industry and price proportions; therefore, the main problem of the study is to examine the general properties of such trajectories. The main feature of the model under consideration is the nonlinear production functions of industries. Even the simplest Cobb–Douglas specification generates the dynamics of the main variables of the model described by a nonlinear differential equation of the second order, which cannot be integrated in general form. Therefore, the analysis of the properties of effective trajectories (at least when specific parameters of trajectories are of interest, and not just general criteria for existence and stability) required the development of a program of numerical experiments on a computer, designed for a fairly extensive test of hypotheses and the convenience of presenting and analyzing the results. To begin with, a variant of the twosector model was chosen, in the future it is planned to expand it to a significantly larger number of sectors. The properties of effective trajectories with constant parameters were analyzed: the marginal rate of product substitution (constant price ratio), constant marginal rate of resource substitution (constant ratio of factor payment rates), constant ratio of net output of industries, constant share of investments in GDP, etc. General conclusions are obtained about the conditions for the convergence of such “iso-trajectories” to trajectories with a constant GDP growth rate and about the characteristics of stationary trajectories. Of greatest interest, in the author’s opinion, is the conclusion that the existence and stability of stationary trajectories is determined by the intersectoral ratio of the elasticities of the output with respect to the funds of the sectors under consideration: for an industry producing investment products, this parameter should be of lesser importance. The derived equation, which can be interpreted as an expression of a trend that determines the form of the relationship between the proportions of industry outputs and prices in the economy, opens the way to a meaningful macroeconomic analysis of the relationships between these proportions, depending on the configuration of the parameters of social technology Ai, αi, aij, B and scenarios of their changes over time.

scholarly journals On the Issue of “Green Expression” of Environmental and Social Technology

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongxiao Zhu ◽  
Chengxiao Zou
Keyword(s):  
Social Technology

Man, Institutions and Bioeconomics

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-355
Author(s):  
Javier Alfonso Gil
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Social Technology ◽  
Activity System ◽  
Material Technology ◽  
Political Market ◽  
System A ◽  
Biological Capacity ◽  
Growth Of Knowledge ◽  
The One

Because bioeconomics is born of the interaction between the biological activity system and its socio-economic activity system, a holistic methodological approach is essential to study the relations between them. However, it must search for increasing levels of reductionism within each discipline to delve into the ultimate nature of each one of the intervening forces, whether economic or biological. This paper explores the economic forces. Through the biological capacity to comprehend, man and by extension, society, accumulates knowledge, the fulcrum from which he is able to dominate over his natural habitat. From this ‘point d’appui’, man builds two basic tools to assist him in achieving the goal of bettering his social condition. On the one hand, he creates institutions that allow him to “live with others” and, on the other, he develops technology that helps him to “live better with others”. Institutions, also referred to as ‘social technology’, tend toward stability over time while technology or ‘material technology’, tends toward instability, which would suggest that, normally, the mechanics of change will originate in material technology and, from there, progress to social technology by way of the political market. The level of progress and development attained depends on the quantity and rate of growth of knowledge applied by a society. In the process, man and his collectivity are forced to adopt new views of their environment through new shared mental models. The concurrence of equipment and political market will ultimately become the prime mover of institutional and economic change as well as change in mentality. Both technologies must keep on an adaptive course of stable evolution since discrepancies arising between them can cause tension between the various social groups. Adequate management of technological shock is essential to avoid extreme situations of social conflict. Herein lie the most important political decisions that a government must confront over the long term.

scholarly journals Utopias and Dystopias as Models of Social Technology

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Ferreira da Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
Unusual Feature ◽  
Social Technology ◽  
Social Planning ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Nancy Cartwright ◽  
Social Arrangements

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2015v19n3p363This paper presents some proposals for social science advanced by Otto Neurath, focusing on scientific utopianism. Neurath suggests that social scientists should formulate ideals of social arrangements in utopian style, aiming at discussing scientific proposals with a community. Utopias are deemed as models of social science, in the sense proposed by Nancy Cartwright. This view is contrasted with the claim that scientism might lead to dystopian consequences in social planning, drawn from Aldous Huxley’s fiction and from Paul Feyerabend’s philosophy of science. Thus, social science displays a unusual feature: sometimes a model has to be called off, in spite of its perfect functioning, because it brings about unwanted consequences. In the planning of a free democratic society, this ambiguity of utopia and dystopia is highly desirable, for it stimulates essential debates. Social science, therefore, is to be regarded from a plural and fallibilist standpoint.

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