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This article analyzes the different phases the Information Systems--Sociology relationship has gone through and points out some specific features of sociologists and Information Systems scientists in their conceptualization of Information Technology (IT). It shows that both academic fields...
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The question we address here is: "What is the very nature of managerial problems?". We first argue that real management problems, as opposed to technical problems, are those which do not have "a priori" solutions and for which the arguments for and against any important decision are more or less...
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become clearer when we step back and frame the question in terms of knowledge in general. As the reader will see, this … enables us to trace, with great epistemological force, the direction of a different type of knowledge. This allows us to … escape from the addiction of mathematization while building a better quality knowledge. We will take in a number of examples …
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Research on epistemological foundations is fruitful to understand the different e-learning models and not just to describe them. We develop here the idea that education is fundamentally a process of Communication. And then we can find the three major epistemological perspectives: instrumental...
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in epistemological perspectives for the mobilisation of knowledge in support of society's collective deliberation and … governance' lens, this article highlights the diversity of different forms of dialogue for the mobilisation of knowledge, before … focussing on those forms that: (a) are inclusive of a wide spectrum of knowledge systems; (b) bring together knowledge through …
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scientific theory, using the concepts of epistemology, and puts in prominent positions models, association of objects with …
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This paper has a methodological purpose, as we are aiming to show practices of accounting research designing. In that heuristic, we are basing our argument on Burrell's and Morgan's (1979), Feyerabend's (1975), Quattrone's (2000, 2004b) and Lowe's (2004a, b) epistemo-methodological writings and...
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Research studies within organizational knowledge are good examples for both analyzing and illustrating the debate … regarding a paradigm shift in management. Most articles in the field focus on knowledge complexity and its socially constructed … articles dealing with organizational knowledge. Our research points out that the principles of constructivism are difficult to …
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Au-delà des simples allusions à la question que l'on peut trouver dans un grand nombre de livres et d'articles l'étude spécifique des mots qui désignent la comptabilité dans différentes langues et de leur étymologie est relativement récente et fragmentée ; ainsi , Baladouni publie,...
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Now that complex Agent-Based Models and computer simulations spread over economics and social sciences - as in most sciences of complex systems -, epistemological puzzles (re)emerge. We introduce new epistemological concepts so as to show to what extent authors are right when they focus on some...
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