Constructionist-fractal method is essentially a semiotic- hermeneutics method. It aims the transmodern paradigm analysis under three classical aspects: syntactic, semantic and pragmatic. The model’s syntax is the law – ontognoseology axioms that will be repeated in other areas of the...

Smoking was once defined as an appropriate recreational substance or life comfort, but is now understood as a serious health risk and a public health problem important enough to be controlled by society. In this article the changed social position and development of tobacco regulations in...

J.-C. Spender’s award-winning, knowledge-based theory of the firm is based on four premises: (1) The firm can be sufficiently understood as a system of knowledge, (2) explicit and implicit knowing can be clearly dissociated, (3) organizations are conceived as cognizing entities, and (4)...

The social construction of illness has become a major research perspective in the area of health psychology. Illness accordingly is viewed as an experience which has cultural and social influences. The present article uses this perspective and presents three major findings in the construction...

Purpose: This article explores how the relational social constructionist leadership (RSCL) ontology and epistemology, as well as the practice approach, could be employed to reconceptualise the responsible leadership theory. Design: This paper presents a literature review on the responsible...