Whilst Day's (2000) description of leadership development as an investment in social capital has been widely cited, there little subsequent empirical or theoretical work to explore and articulate the nature purpose this ‘social capital’ how it changes over time. This paper revisits issue by presenting findings from a qualitative in-depth longitudinal evaluation corporate programme. The study ex...

If a community recognizes a set of moral values and commitments as compelling, as virtues, these become the foundations of moral discourse in that community. Other statements, new moral claims, and so on-as long as they are not absorbed into the set of shared virtues-have no or little standing. And, while there are frequently differences in interpreting the exact meanings and implications of pr...

I suggest a pluralistic account of folk psychology according to which not all predictions or explanations rely on the attribution of mental states, and not all intentional actions are explained by mental states. This view of folk psychology is supported by research in developmental and social psychology. It is well known that people use personality traits to predict behavior. I argue that trait...

Organizations are awash in a wide range of practices that are guided by a variety of goals, values, assumptions, and identities. New enterprise systems are consistent with many of these practices, yet conflict with others. Using institutional theory, we show how the congruence with the institutional logics associated with an ERP implementation affects the local responses to the system. This ins...

This article aims to present a condensed overview of major trends in Brazil, establish a general taxonomy of models of health management and planning, based on the international scene and support the proposal for a communicative planning. In a context of democratization,argues for a pluralistic conception and concludes that the various currents, albeit with different perspectives and referrals ...

I propose a reinterpretation of Peirce’s theory of pragmaticism which sees it to cater a general methodological approach, as well as a historical counterpoint, to a multiplicity of issues arising in contemporary social and behavioural sciences. This interpretation deflects methodological individualism but integrates co-evolution, abduction and triadic forms of emergence into it. It follows that...

The work presented advocates a pluralistic approach for integrating the concepts of organisational design discipline into the business process design. The paper examines the philosophical foundations of this approach. The proposed integrated approach can be studied at the strategic, the business process and the operational levels .The assumptions made refer mainly to the business process level....

The recent literature in philosophy of biology has drawn attention to the different sorts of explanations proffered in the biological sciences—we have molecular, biomedical, and evolutionary explanations. Do these explanations all have a common structure or relation that they seek to capture? This paper will answer in the negative. I defend a pluralistic and pragmatic approach to explanation. U...

Lippe rejected out of hand the idea advanced by Morris [5] that pain was a pluralistic concept. Rather, he asserted “the biomedical basis of maldynia.” In Lippe’s medicocentric view of pain, “maldynia” was neither a symptom nor a syndrome but an “illness with endogenous and exogenous components.” Thus defined, “eudynia” becomes a teleologically beneficial mechanism, whereas “maldynia” is “usele...