Private security organizations have been scarcely studied, starting from the perspective of Organizational Studies, case a Mexican business organization dedicated to this activity is analyzed. The objective article analyze how and why organizational change carried out in private organization. methodology used qualitative, using study as research strategy. main results are that processes were ne...

In his poetic work, Aldo Oliva recovers historical discourses to intervene critically in them and rescue their disruptive potential buried by History. Within this frame, we analyze a few verses of last series, “Ese General Belgrano”, where the Argentinian hero is set against hegemonic discourse that petrifies meanings solidifies course Revolution predetermined teleology. The show how enjambment...

It is often believed that the only alternative to an idealist conception of natural phenomena excludes both presence objective universal forms and their progression towards higher as finality processes in world. Realism regarding teleological approaches are signs idealism. Therefore, materialism, it would seem, must conform a nominalist mechanical view nature. However, intelligent materialist r...

Reviewed by: Confucian Concord: Reform, Utopia and Global Teleology in Kang Youwei's Datong Shu by Federico Brusadelli Carine Defoort (bio) Shu. By Brusadelli. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. 197. Hardback $146, isbn 978-90-04-43444-8 analyses the thought of late Qing reformer Youwei 康有為 (1858– 1927). His well-known Datongshu 大同書 (Great Concord), conceived 1884 finally published 1935, functions as a p...

Abstract This article examines the incident of a “revolt” in Ockenden Tibetan refugee school early 1960s. By analyzing this previously unknown within broader historical context years exile, aims to underline contested and contingent process nation-building exile. I argue that incident, as forgotten fragments past, provides us rare glimpse into history contestation over production national disco...

Artificial systems that generate contingency-based teleological behaviors in real-time, are difficult to model. This chapter describes a modeling and simulation (M&S) framework designed specifically to reduce this difficulty. The described Knowledge-based Contingency-driven Generative Systems (KCGS) framework combines aspects of SES theory, DEVS-based general systems theory, netcentric heteroge...

This paper attempts to illustrate the importance of a coherent behavioural interpretation in applying evolutionary algorithms like Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming to the modelling of social processes. It summarises and draws out the implications of the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis for processes of social evolution and then discusses the extent to which evolutionary algorithms capture the ...