We begin with the development of phenomenologies and descriptive psychologies of mystical experience. The historical and cultural context for these concerns starts in the nineteenth century, where there appears a strong interest in a naturalistic philosophical understanding (Schleiermacher, Nietzsche) and social science (Tylor) of mystical and religious experience. All the great pioneers in the...

Comfortability is one of the important attributes (characteristics) for a successful team work in any organization. It is necessary to find a comfortable and successful team in any given social network. We have introduced “comfortability” as a new SNA index. Comfortable team exists only in some social networks. In this paper, we analyze the existence of comfortable team in product graphs, such ...

Embeddedness of interfirm relationships in the social structure resulting from prior partnerships engenders order in new tie formation. However, competitive incentives make firms likely to undermine the order that they achieve through the formation of interfirm relationships. We focus empirically on unplanned dissolution of joint ventures between firms competing in the same industry and examine...

Consider a simple world populated with two types of individuals, those who work and create wealth (peasants) and those who steal the property of others (bandits). With bandits about, peasants need to protect their output and can do so individually or collectively. But either way protection is costly; it consumes resources and interferes with an individual’s ability to create wealth. This study ...