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Why Does Process Research Require Us to Notice Differently?
No full textThis introductory chapter argues the implications of process ontology for the actual doing of process research in organizations. The chapter explores how process ontology re-conditions the ways in which empirical researchers notice what is happening, shifting attention away from the methodologies of entity-based research towards instead the situated invention of engaged practices that move flexibly with and within living experience and the converging and diverging dynamics of relating-together and living-with. Process ontological research is more about the becoming-ness of the worlds we are opening up and making than describing those we have historically or currently inhabited. It means acknowledging that the ‘doing’ of research is not only of the world, but also in the world, a worlding practice itself. To become alive and response-able to our entanglements in the becomingness of worldings, and to the performativity of our noticings as they cut across the dappled and shimmering movements of living experience, subject positions in a post-qualitative process ontological research are necessarily ‘work-in-progress’, performative and posthuman. We argue that responding to the potentiality of paradigmatic re-arrangement in living situations of empirical research, is key to the continual development of new processual thought in process organization studies. In a transversal reading, the chapter exemplifies a threading of mycelial webs of resonance travelling across the volume chapters and foregrounding process ontological research as a concern for training attention and attuning, rhythming formats and using art, poetics and aesthetics in the doing of research, as well as engaging multiplicity, difference and diffraction in agencement.This introductory chapter argues the implications of process ontology for the actual doing of process research in organizations. The chapter explores how process ontology re-conditions the ways in which empirical researchers notice what is happening, shifting attention away from the methodologies of entity-based research towards instead the situated invention of engaged practices that move flexibly with and within living experience and the converging and diverging dynamics of relating-together and living-with. Process ontological research is more about the becoming-ness of the worlds we are opening up and making than describing those we have historically or currently inhabited. It means acknowledging that the ‘doing’ of research is not only of the world, but also in the world, a worlding practice itself. To become alive and response-able to our entanglements in the becomingness of worldings, and to the performativity of our noticings as they cut across the dappled and shimmering movements of living experience, subject positions in a post-qualitative process ontological research are necessarily ‘work-in-progress’, performative and posthuman. We argue that responding to the potentiality of paradigmatic re-arrangement in living situations of empirical research, is key to the continual development of new processual thought in process organization studies. In a transversal reading, the chapter exemplifies a threading of mycelial webs of resonance travelling across the volume chapters and foregrounding process ontological research as a concern for training attention and attuning, rhythming formats and using art, poetics and aesthetics in the doing of research, as well as engaging multiplicity, difference and diffraction in agencement
Opening conversation on doing process research
No full textThis closing chapter of the book is intended to open up to a wider trans-disciplinary conversation about the doing of research that arises from a commitment to process ontology. It takes the form of a conversation between the book’s editors, Line Revsbæk and Barbara Simpson, and two prominent exponents of post-qualitative inquiry in the field of education, Alecia Jackson and Lisa Mazzei. We traverse a range of topics including the teaching of research practice and the receptivity of students to new ways of thinking, the relationship between process ontology and other post-foundationalist philosophies, the challenges of ‘posthuman subjectivities’ and ‘power’ in process ontological inquiry, and the potential for process ontological research to inform the tremendous demands for transformative change that our world(s) are increasingly imposing upon all of us. We end on an optimistic note, looking forward to ‘a people to come’.This closing chapter of the book is intended to open up to a wider trans-disciplinary conversation about the doing of research that arises from a commitment to process ontology. It takes the form of a conversation between the book’s editors, Line Revsbæk and Barbara Simpson, and two prominent exponents of post-qualitative inquiry in the field of education, Alecia Jackson and Lisa Mazzei. We traverse a range of topics including the teaching of research practice and the receptivity of students to new ways of thinking, the relationship between process ontology and other post-foundationalist philosophies, the challenges of ‘posthuman subjectivities’ and ‘power’ in process ontological inquiry, and the potential for process ontological research to inform the tremendous demands for transformative change that our world(s) are increasingly imposing upon all of us. We end on an optimistic note, looking forward to ‘a people to come’
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Introduction : How does novelty emerge?
No full textIn this introductory chapter, we clarify how contemporary organizational scholars view emergence and novelty. As the use of these terms has grown, their meanings have become increasingly diffuse. In response, we explicate three lenses that tease out core distinctions between different philosophical and theoretical approaches to studying emergence. Each of the three lenses, which we call respectively spatial emergence, relational emergence, and temporal emergence, is based on a unique pairing of underlying assumptions about the exogenized or endogenized nature of both space and time. Each also has particular implications for practitioners seeking practical insights into emergence, and for researchers conducting studies on emergence. In addition, we introduce the chapters in this volume, which offer a variety of philosophical, theoretical, and empirical perspectives on the theme of novelty emergence. In introducing the chapters in Part I, which engage directly with this theme, we emphasise the interplay between the three lenses. The remaining chapters in Part II address developments more generally in the domain of process organization studies
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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