The present paper takes the position that social action inherently involves meaning and, thus, cannot be adequately modeled without representing the interpretive process among agents. The development of interpretive models is challenging, however, and quickly raises issues of computational tractability. A strategy is developed based on three assumptions (agent focus, continuity reduction and or...

A model is presented that addresses both the distribution and comprehension of different forms of referring expressions in language. This model is expressed in a formalism (Kamp & Reyle, 1993) that uses interpretive rules to map syntactic representations onto representations of discourse. Basic interpretive rules are developed for names, pronouns, definite descriptions, and quantified descripti...

earlier, environmental problems have been considered as technical and economic problems. in the last decades of the twentieth century the societal dimensions of environmental problems and environmental issues attracted more public attention. as a result of this circumstances a new social scientific discipline, “environmental sociology” was appeared to investigate the environmental behavior ...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) operations are becoming increasingly important for businesses throughout the world. It is critical to understand how stakeholders perceive these actions achieve intended CSR advantages. The nature of motivation has been extensively discussed, yet there still gaps in literature, including orientation. Individual enterprises no longer pitted against one anoth...

Abstract Inter-agency collaboration is a well-established, yet very difficult process in public governance. Despite the fact that it often unsuccessful, risk research still undeveloped and impact of this on effectiveness joint activities underestimated. This issue particular significance safety networks, where inter-agency processes are conducted under conditions complexity uncertainty. For rea...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to design a participatory decision-making model for teachers of the second year of secondary education in Lorestan province. In this regard, first, using library and field studies, the components of teacherschr('39') participatory decision-making were initially identified. Then, using interviews with experts and based on the Delphi method, the identified fa...