Artifact as theory-nexus: hermeneutics meets theory-based design

The Design Theory Nexus 1 2

14 15 Managers frequently face ill-structured or “wicked” prob16 lems. Such problems are characterized by a large degree of 17 uncertainty with respect to how the problem should be 18 approached and how to establish and evaluate the set of 19 alternative solutions. A design theory nexus is a set of 20 constructs and methods that enable the construction of models 21 that connect numerous design ...

Re-reading the Narrative in Ibrahim Sultan’s Shahnama Based on Paul Ricoeur`s Philosophical Hermeneutics Theory

A manuscript of Ibrahim Sultan`s Shahna­ma available at the Bodleian Library of Oxford, representing the full range of vi­sual features of the Shiraz School at the age of Ibrahim Sultan Timuri (817-838 AH) which has the symbolic aspects and semantic trends of painting and the po­tentiality to be interpreted based on phil­osophical hermeneutics. It seems that an­alyzing the visual element and re...

Hamilton's rule: Game theory meets coalescent theory.

When graph theory meets knot theory

Since the early 1980s, graph theory has been a favorite topic for undergraduate research due to its accessibility and breadth of applications. By the early 1990s, knot theory was recognized as another such area of mathematics, in large part due to C. Adams’ text, The Knot Book. In this paper, we discuss the intersection of these two fields and provide a survey of current work in this area, much...

The Nexus among Resource Based Theory, Marketing Strategy, and Firm Performance: An Integrated Framework

The purpose of this article is to present the link among resource based theory, marketing strategy, and firms’ performance in order to propose integrative framework showing how the three constructs are linked. It is organized based on a review of academic literature on resource based theory and marketing strategy chronicled in major marketing journals up to December 2015. Besides, the paper ref...