RUNNING HEAD : THE CONCEPTUAL ACT THEORY TITLE : The Conceptual Act Theory : A road map

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Knowledge Management in Railway Industry: A Conceptual Model Based on Open Innovation and online Communities

Organizations need to be capable of attracting external knowledge. This activity is extremely related to innovation process and particularly to open innovation approach. Therefore, this qualitative research is designed to identify the dimensions and components for providing a conceptual model of KM architecture by open innovation approach based on online communities in the grounded theory frame...

A Conceptual Analysis of Epistemological Pre-assumptions of Floridi’s Theory of Information Ethics

Background and Aim: This paper aims at conceptual analysis of epistemological pre-assumptions of the theory of “Information Ethics” to provide better understanding about this macro-ethics theory and offer a critical standpoint about some of its pre-assumptions. Methods: A documentary method and a conceptual analysis were used. This research method and approach is best suited to explore pre-assu...

The Conceptual Model of the principals Competency Development in Secondary School, grounded Theory

The purpose of this study was to develop a conceptual model for the competence of high school principals in Tehran province. This qualitative research was carried out using a strategy based on the grounded theory. In this regard, using a targeted approach and theoretical saturation criterion, semi-structured interviews with 17 people (7 faculty members specialized in the field of educational ma...

Discourse Structures of Condolence Speech Act

Condolence is part of Austin’s expressive speech act and is related to Searle’s behabitives illocutionary act. Although a theoretically sound issue in pragmatics, condolence speech act has not been investigated as much as other speech acts in discourse-related studies. This paper aims at investigating interjections and intensifiers while performing condolence speech act among Persian and Englis...