Participative Mindscapes

Mindscapes And Internet-mediated Communication

Cultures are considered to be epistemologically heterogeneous, and it is assumed that epistemologically similar individuals exist across distinct cultures. Epistemological type is viewed as prior to, and transcendent of, nationality and culture. IdentifYing a shared epistemological basis for communication will be more likely to succeed in dialogical contexts where conformity to prevailing natio...

Participative Biogeography-Based Optimization

Biogeography-Based Optimization (BBO) has recently gained interest of researchers due to its simplicity in implementation, efficiency and existence of very few parameters. The BBO algorithm is a new type of optimization technique based on biogeography concept. This population-based algorithm uses the idea of the migration strategy of animals or other species for solving optimization problems. t...

Participative Problem Solving

Everything can become art, everything can be studied scientifically.

"Towards « Participative » Multinationals"

Personality, pathology and mindsets: part 1 - agency, personality and mindscapes

Purpose – This paper aims to develop a new socio-cognitive theory of the normative personality of a plural agency like, for instance, an organisation or a political system. This cybernetic agency theory is connected to Bandura’s theory of psychosocial function. The agency is adaptive and has a normative personality that operates through three formative personality traits, the function of which ...