В статье предложены схема диагностирования проблем развития сложных слабоструктурированных систем, основанная на построении когнитивной карты развития...

Discourse about knowledge-based economies rarely moves beyond the commercialization of science and engineering, and is locked in the discursive limits of functionalism. We argue that these discourses limit the scope of what knowledge-based economies might achieve because they are uninformed by...

This paper aims to critically analyze some of the social and political dimensions of the philosophy of Jürgen Habermas, from the perspective of reconstruction theory of democracy, based on communicative action. Habermas's philosophy constiutie a benchmark for social and political thinking. The...

Communicative rationality offers a new paradigm for transportation planning. Drawing on the literature and lessons from transportation planning practice, this paper describes the characteristics of a “communicative” form of transportation planning and compares them with conventional...

Power has been a neglected topic in economics at least since the neoclassical paradigm has dominated the profession. John Kenneth Galbraith is probably the most prominent and successful among his fellow American institutional economists in this particular field of inquiry. Steven Lukes's useful...

The introduction of knowledge teams, as a new form of work organization, is one of many institutional transformations associated with the knowledge economy. The research on the effects of this new form of work organization on the social processes by which knowledge workers exchange, create, and...

The main objective of this editorial is the underlying of the transdisciplinary approach and the specific ways of putting into practice the interdisciplinary and communicative action in education. In order to do this we tried to do radiography of the theoretic characteristics as they are showed...

Transdisciplinarity and communicative action are the current fluid and irradiative concepts; are the concepts which support the moving of postmodernity toward transmodernity. The first concept is consecrated by Basarab Nicolescu and the second one is imposed by Jurgen Habermas. We emphasize that...

This review is devoted to a description and analysis of the book by Diego Gambetta, Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate. The author studied elements of communicative action basing on signaling theory. In part, he continues the tradition of symbolic interactionism elaborated by...

This article explores the potential contribution of Habermas’s social theory to debates on union decline and renewal in the UK public sector. It employs data relating to 2004—5 research on the National Union of Teachers (NUT) to suggest that two of Habermas’s concepts are...