The legacy of classical American Pragmatism – Peirce, James, Dewey, Addams, Mead, Follett and others in organization theory is significant, albeit that much its influence has come through implicit indirect routes. In light recent calls for an empirical stance as alternative to the prevailing metaphysical organizational research, we reread a process philosophy can profoundly inform views organiz...

despite fiscal stress, public confidence in the national health service (nhs) remains strong; privatisation has not hollowed out the service. but if long term challenges are to be overcome, pragmatism not rhetoric should be the guide.

The present chapter discusses the different epistemologies behind different strands of management thinking and calls for the need for further theoretical development. It proposes a specific management methodology, Semiotic Learning, that corresponds to an innovative approach to the field of organizational learning, one that draws on social semiotics and on ontological hermeneutics in order to d...

About 20 years ago, very shortly after antiretroviral drugs were fi rst shown to inhibit HIV replication and improve clinical outcomes, studies of animals showed that preexposure and post-exposure antiretroviral treatment could protect against retroviral challenges. The fi rst use of antiviral drugs for chemoprophylaxis in human beings was that of zidovudine in HIV-infected pregnant women to pr...

After years of development, the Topic Maps community is in the process of consolidating its standards landscape. This work tries to outline an integrated scenario and sketches how the individual pieces may fit together. This is mostly achieved by a mathematical formalization for Topic Maps. It serves as basis for high-level data models and also for a query language.

Although Dewey's influence has remained strong amongst the community of educators, his reputation amongst philosophers has had a remarkably volatile history. He was unquestionably the most influential figure in American philosophy until his death in 1952. Almost immediately after his death, however, Dewey's writings almost completely disappeared from the American philosophy syllabus. They were ...

Purpose Pragmatism is very relevant to workplace management and performance measurement, yet in the accounting literature, it a term used loosely colloquial manner. By drawing on framework based classical pragmatism, this study aims examine how pragmatic perspective discernible form use of control (MC) practices. Design/methodology/approach This collects data using case firm green energy constr...