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Yang, Eunsuk. "Basic Core Fuzzy Logics and Algebraic Routley–Meyer-Style Semantics." Axioms 10, no. 4 (October 25, 2021): 273. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/axioms10040273.
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Recently, algebraic Routley–Meyer-style semantics was introduced for basic substructural logics. This paper extends it to fuzzy logics. First, we recall the basic substructural core fuzzy logic MIAL (Mianorm logic) and its axiomatic extensions, together with their algebraic semantics. Next, we introduce two kinds of ternary relational semantics, called here linear Urquhart-style and Fine-style Routley–Meyer semantics, for them as algebraic Routley–Meyer-style semantics.
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Yang, Eunsuk. "Involutive basic substructural core fuzzy logics: Involutive mianorm-based logics." Fuzzy Sets and Systems 320 (August 2017): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fss.2017.03.013.
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Carnielli, Walter, Marcelo E. Coniglio, and Abilio Rodrigues. "Recovery operators, paraconsistency and duality." Logic Journal of the IGPL 28, no. 5 (January 2, 2019): 624–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jigpal/jzy054.
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Abstract There are two foundational, but not fully developed, ideas in paraconsistency, namely, the duality between paraconsistent and intuitionistic paradigms, and the introduction of logical operators that express metalogical notions in the object language. The aim of this paper is to show how these two ideas can be adequately accomplished by the logics of formal inconsistency (LFIs) and by the logics of formal undeterminedness (LFUs). LFIs recover the validity of the principle of explosion in a paraconsistent scenario, while LFUs recover the validity of the principle of excluded middle in a paracomplete scenario. We introduce definitions of duality between inference rules and connectives that allow comparing rules and connectives that belong to different logics. Two formal systems are studied, the logics mbC and mbD, that display the duality between paraconsistency and paracompleteness as a duality between inference rules added to a common core—in the case studied here, this common core is classical positive propositional logic. The logics mbC and mbD are equipped with recovery operators that restore classical logic for, respectively, consistent and determined propositions. These two logics are then combined obtaining a pair of LFI and undeterminedness, namely, mbCD and mbCDE. The logic mbCDE exhibits some nice duality properties. Besides, it is simultaneously paraconsistent and paracomplete, and able to recover the principles of excluded middle and explosion one at a time. The last sections offer an algebraic account for such logics by adapting the swap structures semantics framework of the LFIs the LFUs. This semantics highlights some subtle aspects of these logics, and allows us to prove decidability by means of finite nondeterministic matrices.
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Yang, Eunsuk. "Basic substructural core fuzzy logics and their extensions: Mianorm-based logics." Fuzzy Sets and Systems 301 (October 2016): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fss.2015.09.007.
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SKUMSRUD ANDERSEN, MORTEN. "Semi-cores in imperial relations: The cases of Scotland and Norway." Review of International Studies 42, no. 1 (April 20, 2015): 178–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210515000030.
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AbstractRecently, the field of International Relations has seen increased interest in international hierarchy, and also an upswing in the analytical study of imperial logics of rule. Nonetheless, existing structural models of empire focus on core-periphery dynamics, and so cannot explain polities that display elements of both core and periphery. Therefore, I offer the new concept of ‘semi-cores’. Semi-cores are a specific form of historical political associations whereby certain imperial provinces are different from the others in terms of the close relationships it maintains with the imperial metropolis. Semi-cores are different by virtue of being relatively similar. The conceptualisation of semi-cores is followed by a section illustrating its logic, examining the relatively unfamiliar cases of Scotland and Norway and their position within the Danish and British empires, respectively. Although being separate imperial provinces, these were tightly connected to an imperial core. This concept helps us better understand imperial logics, and in the process shows how cultural factors can be formalised into accounts of structural logics of rule, impacting our understanding of both historical and contemporary hierarchical international affairs.
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Cerami, Marco, and Francesc Esteva. "Strict core fuzzy logics and quasi-witnessed models." Archive for Mathematical Logic 50, no. 5-6 (May 1, 2011): 625–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00153-011-0237-8.
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Hodge, Emily M. "“Common” Instruction? Logics of Ability and Teacher Decision Making Across Tracks in the Era of Common Standards." American Educational Research Journal 56, no. 3 (October 20, 2018): 638–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0002831218803328.
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This article investigates the interaction between the Common Core State Standards and curricular tracking by examining instructional decision making across tracks in a large metropolitan district. This study draws on institutional logics as a framework to analyze 106 instructional decisions from 24 participants involved in middle school literacy instruction. In lower-track classes, participants often adapted the curriculum and adopted a more teacher-centered approach. About half of the rationales for those decisions reflected a logic of tracking, less than a fifth reflected a logic of differentiation, and almost a third reflected elements of both logics. These findings demonstrate that despite common standards, a tracked school structure continues to serve as a powerful signal about the curriculum and instruction seen as appropriate for different groups of students.
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Sánchez, Juan Gabriel. "Framing the Common Core: An Analysis of Four Key Policy Actors." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 121, no. 8 (August 2019): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146811912100806.
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Background/Context In recent years, the American political context has become increasingly divided, as exemplified by the debate over the Common Core State Standards. Initially a bipartisan national venture, the standards became immersed in controversy soon after their introduction in 2010. In the aftermath, a growing body of research has examined the Common Core at the policy level; yet little empirical research has analyzed the public messaging of key interest groups involved in the Common Core debate. Research Design This empirical study draws on frame analysis to unpack the public discourse of four policy actors involved in the debate over the Common Core: the Gates Foundation, Heritage Foundation, National Education Association, and education historian Diane Ravitch. It examines policy documents released by each actor to first understand the central public frames present in their discourse about the standards, then unearth the implicit logics embedded in these frames. Findings/Results Four underlying logics—market, technical, democratic, and pragmatic— emerged from the explicit frames used by the four actors. These logics overlap, some existing on both sides of the debate, with opponents such as Gates and Heritage Foundations often using competing public frames about innovation or freedom, while also drawing on similar implicit market-based assumptions about the purpose of education to inform their arguments for and against Common Core respectively. Conclusions/Recommendations These findings suggest intriguing similarities in the discourse of key actors involved in education reform and add nuance to growing fears that market-based logics dominate modern education policy. Yet some of the discourse still draws on democratic logics, the expressions of which between different actors. Methodologically, frame analysis emerges as a productive means of unpacking hidden or obscured ideas within policy and the discourse about that policy, especially when paired with the concept of logics, which mediate values and action.
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Ramanujam, R., Vaishnavi Sundararajan, and S. P. Suresh. "The complexity of disjunction in intuitionistic logic." Journal of Logic and Computation 30, no. 1 (January 2020): 421–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exaa018.
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Abstract We study procedures for the derivability problem of fragments of intuitionistic logic. Intuitionistic logic is known to be PSPACE-complete, with implication being one of the main contributors to this complexity. In fact, with just implication alone, we still have a PSPACE-complete logic. We study fragments of intuitionistic logic with restricted implication and develop algorithms for these fragments which are based on the proof rules. We identify a core fragment whose derivability is solvable in linear time. Adding disjunction elimination to this core gives a logic which is solvable in co-NP. These sub-procedures are applicable to a wide variety of logics with rules of a similar flavour. We also show that we cannot do better than co-NP whenever disjunction elimination interacts with other rules.
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Busco, Cristiano, Elena Giovannoni, and Angelo Riccaboni. "Sustaining multiple logics within hybrid organisations." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 30, no. 1 (January 16, 2017): 191–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-11-2013-1520.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how accounting and control practices contribute to the persistence of the multiple logics that characterise hybrid organizations, i.e. organizations that constantly incorporate elements from different institutional logics at the very core of their identity. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on the literature regarding institutional logics and on studies exploring the enabling power of accounting to interpret the findings derived from a longitudinal case study of a hybrid organization operating in the field of brain-computer interface technology. Findings The study shows that the persistence of conflicting logics and innovation within hybrid organizations can be sustained through the mediating role of accounting and control practices. By engaging different interested parties within processes of innovation, these practices can establish complex interconnections between conflicting perspectives and their objects of concern. Consequently, accounting and control do not address a specific logic but instead contribute to lock different parties to their own logic, allowing them to engage and generate innovation while maintaining their diversity. Originality/value Whereas previous studies have explored mechanisms for keeping the multiple logics of hybrids separate or for reconciling them, the paper shows that conflicts between these logics do not need to be reduced but can be mediated to generate innovation. Additionally, the authors contribute to the literature on accounting “in action”, by illustrating the role of accounting and control practices as boundary objects that act within a broader “ecology of objects” through which innovation materializes in a context of enduring institutional pluralism.
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Standbrink, Peter. "Epistocracy and Democratic Participation in a Post-Truth World." Democratic Theory 5, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/dt.2018.050102.
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This article investigates civic-political and cognitive participation as they play out in democratic theory. Its core purpose is to develop a conceptual-normative critique of the presupposition in liberal democratic theory that these logics are mutually reinforcing and complementary. This misunderstanding of a theoretical ambivalence contributes to inhibiting constructive assessment of epistocratic*technocratic frameworks of democratic interpretation and theory. I demonstrate that these logics circulate contrasting views of democratic power and legitimacy and should be disentangled to make sense of liberal democratic theoretical and political spaces. This critique is then fed into a political-epistemological interrogation of post-truth and alt-facts rhetorical registers in contemporary liberal democratic life, concluding that neither logic of participation can harbor this unanticipated and fundamentally nonaligned way of doing liberal democratic democracy.
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De Giacomo, Giuseppe, Maurizio Lenzerini, and Riccardo Rosati. "Higher-Order Description Logics for Domain Metamodeling." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 25, no. 1 (August 4, 2011): 183–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v25i1.7857.
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We investigate an extension of Description Logics (DL) with higher-order capabilities, based on Henkin-style semantics. Our study starts from the observation that the various possibilities of adding higher-order con- structs to a DL form a spectrum of increasing expres- sive power, including domain metamodeling, i.e., using concepts and roles as predicate arguments. We argue that higher-order features of this type are sufficiently rich and powerful for the modeling requirements aris- ing in many relevant situations, and therefore we carry out an investigation of the computational complexity of satisfiability and conjunctive query answering in DLs extended with such higher-order features. In particular, we show that adding domain metamodeling capabilities to SHIQ (the core of OWL 2) has no impact on the complexity of the various reasoning tasks. This is also true for DL-LiteR (the core of OWL 2 QL) under suit- able restrictions on the queries.
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Mattern, Janice Bially, and Ayşe Zarakol. "Hierarchies in World Politics." International Organization 70, no. 3 (2016): 623–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020818316000126.
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AbstractHierarchy-centered approaches to IR promise to deliver what anarchy-centered approaches have not: a framework for theorizing and empirically analyzing world politics as a global system rather than just an international one. At the core of this proposition are three features of hierarchical systems as they are represented across the growing IR literature on the topic. First, the structures of differentiation at the core of hierarchical systems are deeply implicated with power. Hierarchical systems are thus intrinsically political. Second, in world politics, hierarchies stratify, rank, and organize the relations not only among states but also other kinds of actors as well, and often even a mix of different actors within a single structure of differentiation. Third, there are many different kinds of hierarchical relations in world politics, each of which generate different “logics” influencing social, moral, and behavioral outcomes. Hierarchy has been understood in the IR literature in two ways: narrowly, as a relationship of legitimate authority; and broadly, as intersubjective manifestations of organized inequality. Hierarchy operates in a variety of different ways that range from ordering solutions to deep structures. We identify three such “logics” that have been fruitfully explored in IR scholarship and that can form the basis of a future research agenda: hierarchy as an institutionalized functional bargain between actors (a logic of trade-offs); hierarchy as differentiated social and political roles shaping behavior (a logic of positionality); and hierarchy as a productive political space or structure (a logic of productivity).
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BIMBÓ, KATALIN, J. MICHAEL DUNN, and ROGER D. MADDUX. "RELEVANCE LOGICS AND RELATION ALGEBRAS." Review of Symbolic Logic 2, no. 1 (March 2009): 102–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755020309090145.
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Relevance logics are known to be sound and complete for relational semantics with a ternary accessibility relation. This paper investigates the problem of adequacy with respect to special kinds of dynamic semantics (i.e., proper relation algebras and relevant families of relations). We prove several soundness results here. We also prove the completeness of a certain positive fragment of R as well as of the first-degree fragment of relevance logics. These results show that some core ideas are shared between relevance logics and relation algebras. Some details of certain incompleteness results, however, pinpoint where relevance logics and relation algebras diverge. To carry out these semantic investigations, we define a new tableaux formalization and new sequent calculi (with the single cut rule admissible) for various relevance logics.
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BJORNDAHL, ADAM, and AYBÜKE ÖZGÜN. "LOGIC AND TOPOLOGY FOR KNOWLEDGE, KNOWABILITY, AND BELIEF." Review of Symbolic Logic 13, no. 4 (October 9, 2019): 748–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755020319000509.
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AbstractIn recent work, Stalnaker proposes a logical framework in which belief is realized as a weakened form of knowledge 35. Building on Stalnaker’s core insights, and using frameworks developed in 11 and 3, we employ topological tools to refine and, we argue, improve on this analysis. The structure of topological subset spaces allows for a natural distinction between what is known and (roughly speaking) what is knowable; we argue that the foundational axioms of Stalnaker’s system rely intuitively on both of these notions. More precisely, we argue that the plausibility of the principles Stalnaker proposes relating knowledge and belief relies on a subtle equivocation between an “evidence-in-hand” conception of knowledge and a weaker “evidence-out-there” notion of what could come to be known. Our analysis leads to a trimodal logic of knowledge, knowability, and belief interpreted in topological subset spaces in which belief is definable in terms of knowledge and knowability. We provide a sound and complete axiomatization for this logic as well as its uni-modal belief fragment. We then consider weaker logics that preserve suitable translations of Stalnaker’s postulates, yet do not allow for any reduction of belief. We propose novel topological semantics for these irreducible notions of belief, generalizing our previous semantics, and provide sound and complete axiomatizations for the corresponding logics.
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Sebastiani, R., and M. Vescovi. "Automated Reasoning in Modal and Description Logics via SAT Encoding: the Case Study of K(m)/ALC-Satisfiability." Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 35 (June 25, 2009): 343–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1613/jair.2675.
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In the last two decades, modal and description logics have been applied to numerous areas of computer science, including knowledge representation, formal verification, database theory, distributed computing and, more recently, semantic web and ontologies. For this reason, the problem of automated reasoning in modal and description logics has been thoroughly investigated. In particular, many approaches have been proposed for efficiently handling the satisfiability of the core normal modal logic K(m), and of its notational variant, the description logic ALC. Although simple in structure, K(m)/ALC is computationally very hard to reason on, its satisfiability being PSPACE-complete. In this paper we start exploring the idea of performing automated reasoning tasks in modal and description logics by encoding them into SAT, so that to be handled by state-of-the-art SAT tools; as with most previous approaches, we begin our investigation from the satisfiability in K(m). We propose an efficient encoding, and we test it on an extensive set of benchmarks, comparing the approach with the main state-of-the-art tools available. Although the encoding is necessarily worst-case exponential, from our experiments we notice that, in practice, this approach can handle most or all the problems which are at the reach of the other approaches, with performances which are comparable with, or even better than, those of the current state-of-the-art tools.
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Larsen, Katarina. "Managing the complexity of centres of excellence: accommodating diversity in institutional logics." Tertiary Education and Management 26, no. 3 (December 6, 2019): 295–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11233-019-09053-w.
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AbstractThis article discusses how Centres of Excellence (CoE) and the existence of several logics in these centres can contribute to the differentiation of the strategic profiles of universities. The study sees research centres as a way to organize research activities in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in order to target both excellence but also societal challenges through focused thematic research. It reveals how societal challenges and their interpretation by these centres contribute to the differentiation of the strategic profiles of universities. Studies of centres of excellence programs in Sweden and Japan reveal differences in how their mission is formulated for relevance and excellence. The results indicate that contrasting missions of HEIs are accommodated through the dual logics of these centres relating both to autonomy and industry collaboration. The study shows that long-term funding gives these centres flexibility to set the agenda and focus on their strategic core activities. In other words, a logic of autonomy guides their strategic choices of research activities over the long-run as well as collaborators. Nevertheless, these centres are also developing strategies to cope with dilemmas stemming from the excellence-relevance and evaluation templates that emerge in the nexus of their collaborative ties with industry, government and universities.
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Singh, Shivam, Prachi Bagave, and Soumyadeep Nag. "Single Chip Solution: Implementation of Soft Core Microcontroller Logics in FPGA." IOSR Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering 9, no. 2 (2014): 47–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.9790/1676-09244750.
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Grabowska, Izabela, and Bohdan Skrzypczak. "FROM HYBRID INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS TO SOLIDARITY CAPITAL." Polityka Społeczna 17, no. 1 (ang) (December 31, 2021): 25–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.5908.
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The aim of the paper is to analyse the process of the creation of the hybrid organizational form and the mechanisms of its action. The paper is theory oriented and is based on new institutionalism and hybridity. The research question is how a hybrid organization efficiently functions while simultaneously drawing on three different and partially contradictory institutional logics: commercial (profit-oriented activities), social (non-profit activities), and public (focused on the provision of high-quality social services). We argue that the core mechanism of action of the new organizational form is the solidarity capital.
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Holmlund, Maria, Tore Strandvik, and Ilkka Lähteenmäki. "Digitalization challenging institutional logics." Journal of Service Theory and Practice 27, no. 1 (January 9, 2017): 219–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jstp-12-2015-0256.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the mental models of top executive team members in a selected retail bank. The focus is on how each executive team member makes sense of the market situation and changes with regard to customers and customer-bank interactions in the current situation where earlier bank practices are at risk of becoming obsolete. Design/methodology/approach All members in the executive team were interviewed individually in August 2014 on how they reason about challenges in the service business. The study uses an abductive research approach. Findings The mental models were largely dominated by internal bank issues, and adjusting the services to changing customer preferences was considered a main challenge. The research analysis showed that the executive team members identified the same business challenges, but their interpretations of the meanings and implications of the challenges were different. Mental models tend to be hidden and stable and are seldom explicitly elaborated. There was a distinct spread in mental models in terms of content. Limited focus was on customers as the starting point for business development and renewal. Research limitations/implications The study was conducted in the retail banking setting, which is currently affected by many changes. The study, however, was limited to executive members in one bank. Practical implications The foremost implications of this study relate to sensitising executive members and teams to their mental models and exposing different core challenges related to customers and customer relationships in the retail banking sector. Originality/value The value of the study is it sheds light on top executives’ prospective sensemaking of current business challenges by addressing individual mental models. The study represents a novel approach in the strategic service management literature.
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Kleber, Daniel Marco-Stefan. "Design Thinking for Creating an Increased Value Proposition to Improve Customer Experience." ETIKONOMI 17, no. 2 (August 10, 2018): 265–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/etk.v17i2.7311.
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Purpose of this conceptual study is the identification of design thinking approaches and underlying logic for increasing the value proposition to improve customer experience in today´s dynamic and fast-changing business environment. Method of research based on content analysis of distinctive streams in the literature on design thinking for delivering the increased value proposition. Core elements of design thinking were identified and combined with service-oriented thinking logics aiming at providing superior value proposition and thus to improve customer experience. Furthermore, the article elaborates on the delimitation of Design thinking from Designerly thinking, and a new model for enhancing customer value propositions, the wheel of Design thinking, was developed based on core elements of Design thinking approaches. This approach has a potential to shape and redefine existing markets and to improve adjustment of products and services to dynamic customers´ needs and demands.DOI: 10.15408/etk.v17i2.7311
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Abalo, Ernesto. "Struck by the Potentials of Cannabusiness." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 17, no. 1 (March 15, 2019): 86–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v17i1.1070.
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This study examines the reporting on legal cannabis in order to explore the operation of neoliberal ideology in journalistic discourse. Cannabis legalisation is here understood as a way for capitalism to create new market opportunities, besides being a turn away from the so-called ‘war on drugs’. The study understands neoliberalism as operating via market-based logics that are interrelated with other social logics, such as those pertaining to journalism (Phelan 2014). Critical discourse analysis is used for studying Swedish newspaper reporting on legal cannabis between 2013 and 2018. The study shows that a struggle between market-based logics and journalistic practices is visible, where journalism has difficulties in challenging core tenets of neoliberal ideology. The article concludes with a discussion of how the current conditions of journalism limit its ability to challenge neoliberal perspectives.
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Ann Alexander, Anu, Shishir Jha, and Ashish Pandey. "Understanding how hybrid organisations tackle social challenges." South Asian Journal of Business Studies 9, no. 2 (December 23, 2019): 193–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sajbs-02-2019-0031.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how hybrid organisations combine institutional logics to tackle complex social needs. Design/methodology/approach A multiple case study design was followed, and cases were selected using a two-staged sampling process. Using qualitative analysis, the mechanisms through which logics are selected, prioritised and get integrated in the strategies and practices of these organisations are illustrated. Findings The study contributes to the literature on hybrid organisations and their ability to address social problems in two important ways. First, the paper reveals through the concept of institutional rationality why market-based organisations emerge to address complex social needs in a complex institutional context. Second, the study demonstrates that there is heterogeneity in how logics are blended externally in their strategies and in how logics are integrated internally within the organisation. Research limitations/implications All the cases are selected from India; hence the possibility that the findings are valid only for countries with similar institutional and socio-economic contexts cannot be negated. Practical implications The policy implication is that if business organisations should embrace social goals substantively, a regulation in the form of CSR is not enough. Instead, there should be institutional provisions to promote such hybrid organisational forms where alternative logics such as community, profession, etc., are part of the core logics of the organisation. Originality/value This study connects the strategic choices of organisations with their institutional logics’ configuration in the Indian context.
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Chen, Lei, Jie Han, Ling Jun Li, and Wei Hao. "Development of an Instrument for Machine Equipment State Inspection and Safety Evaluation Based on Embedded Technology." Applied Mechanics and Materials 235 (November 2012): 413–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.235.413.
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In modern industry, plant equipment must be maintained effectively to guarantee safety operation. An intelligent instrument for plant equipment state inspection and safety evaluation was developed based on embedded technology. Firstly, the overall structure of the instrument system was introduced. Then the mainboard circuits were designed based on ARM core microprocessor. The control logics of the dynamic machine signals acquisition subsystem were designed by using of a complex programmable logic device. After that, the embedded operating system was transplanted and device drivers were programmed. Finally, the functions of the applications were stated. The designed instrument can meet the needs of the vibration acquisition of the rotating machines satisfactorily and provide effective means for equipment maintenance.
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Firsova, Svitlana. "Examining Institutional Content of the Balanced Scorecard: Logics and Translations in Ukrainian Business Environment." Organizations and Markets in Emerging Economies 8, no. 2 (December 29, 2017): 142–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/omee.2017.8.2.14184.
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This study examines institutional definitions and meanings Ukrainian managers attach to one of the most popular management concepts – the Balanced Scorecard. Socially constructed discourses, that is, beliefs, understandings, expectations, interpretations, collective cognitions and meanings beyond initial technical purposes of the BSC are treated as an institutional content that infuses and distorts technical aspects of the practice. Results confirm that technical foundations of this practice have been infused with institutionally constructed meanings and understandings generated from the local dominant institutional order, constructing the meaning of the BSC as a coercive, command-and control management system. Gathering information from local sources of information and strengthening them with collective understandings, the BSC has been infused with new meanings and beliefs, dramatically changing the original technical core of the concept. The study shows how the meaning of the management concept changed in the new institutional context under the dominance of the local logic. Specifically, the study contributes to the individual-level research on the impact of institutional logics on actors’ actions by showing the process of individuals’ responses to two macro-level meaning systems materialized in the BSC – prototypical and home institutional logics.
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Montagna, Franco. "Δ-core Fuzzy Logics with Propositional Quantifiers, Quantifier Elimination and Uniform Craig Interpolation." Studia Logica 100, no. 1-2 (February 9, 2012): 289–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11225-012-9379-x.
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Basti, Gianfranco. "The Philosophy of Nature of the Natural Realism. The Operator Algebra from Physics to Logic." Philosophies 7, no. 6 (October 26, 2022): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7060121.
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This contribution is an essay of formal philosophy—and more specifically of formal ontology and formal epistemology—applied, respectively, to the philosophy of nature and to the philosophy of sciences, interpreted the former as the ontology and the latter as the epistemology of the modern mathematical, natural, and artificial sciences, the theoretical computer science included. I present the formal philosophy in the framework of the category theory (CT) as an axiomatic metalanguage—in many senses “wider” than set theory (ST)—of mathematics and logic, both of the “extensional” logics of the pure and applied mathematical sciences (=mathematical logic), and the “intensional” modal logics of the philosophical disciplines (=philosophical logic). It is particularly significant in this categorical framework the possibility of extending the operator algebra formalism from (quantum and classical) physics to logic, via the so-called “Boolean algebras with operators” (BAOs), with this extension being the core of our formal ontology. In this context, I discuss the relevance of the algebraic Hopf coproduct and colimit operations, and then of the category of coalgebras in the computations over lattices of quantum numbers in the quantum field theory (QFT), interpreted as the fundamental physics. This coalgebraic formalism is particularly relevant for modeling the notion of the “quantum vacuum foliation” in QFT of dissipative systems, as a foundation of the notion of “complexity” in physics, and “memory” in biological and neural systems, using the powerful “colimit” operators. Finally, I suggest that in the CT logic, the relational semantics of BAOs, applied to the modal coalgebraic relational logic of the “possible worlds” in Kripke’s model theory, is the proper logic of the formal ontology and epistemology of the natural realism, as a formalized philosophy of nature and sciences.
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Liao, Hong Kai, Yue Xi Yu, Yan Ling Wu, and Wei Zhong. "Model and Algorithm for Thermal Performance Calculation of Power Station Boiler Based on Process Steady-State Simulation Theory." Applied Mechanics and Materials 483 (December 2013): 587–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.483.587.
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Thermal performance calculation is the core task of designing power station boiler. By abstracting generalized components and generalized fluid nodes, and defining the process unit and process section at the logic level, the universal physical model of boiler was built in a particular form of flowsheet. Meanwhile, a sequential modular approach was proposed as the main algorithm for boiler thermal calculation based on process system steady-state simulation theory. Two key problems in the algorithm, i.e., module calculations and the logics of calling the modules calculations were explained. Finally, a practically developed system BESS, which has excellent flexibility and extensibility was presented. It turns out that the model and algorithm can be successfully employed in developing the general-purpose software for boiler thermal calculation.
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Miguez, Pablo, and Nicolas Diana Menendez. "Platform workers in Latin America: transnational logics and regional resistances?" Tempo Social 33, no. 2 (August 16, 2021): 231–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2021.181565.
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The platforms boom in Latin America is at the current core of the industrial and retail sectors. Platform workers (i.e., drivers, motorcyclists and bikers) started organizing along different repertoires taken from other countries thanks to the global character of productive processes and the weight of migrant labor in services, such as mail, post services, and mobility of people. From a qualitative approach, this article proposes an overview of main organizing experiences and burgeoning struggles in this new context aggravated by the intensification of such platforms within the Covid-19 crisis.
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Schaefer, Zachary A., and Owen H. Lynch. "Negotiating organizational future: symbolic struggles in a fiscal crisis." Journal of Organizational Ethnography 4, no. 3 (October 12, 2015): 281–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/joe-07-2014-0017.
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Purpose – The authors use concepts from the “communication constitutes organizations” (CCO) literature in combination with Cooren’s (2010, 2012) ventriloquism to demonstrate the symbolic uses of texts and shifting interpretations of authority during a negotiation regarding the future of a nonprofit educational institution. The two sides negotiating over how to resolve a fiscal crisis struggled to achieve legitimacy through competing institutional logics, and this paper captures this process through a detailed account. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This study emerged from a multi-year full immersion ethnography undertaken by the second author, who spent over 5,000 hours as a participant observer at the organization. The quotes and observations come form field notes taken during this time. Findings – Communication constitutes the nonprofit institution through two communication flows – self-structuring processes and institutional positioning – and these flows symbolically and materially unified the opposing negotiation parties during the negotiation process as each side struggled to gain legitimacy through competing institutional logics. The process of ventriloquism was the mechanism through which different actors and texts negotiated their levels of authority. Practical implications – This case demonstrates how oppositional groups used and viewed texts throughout a negotiation process, revealing the agency, authority, legitimacy, and symbolic power of texts. This case also highlights the political struggle between institutional logics backed by financial models and professional logics backed by traditional organizational values. Originality/value – At a material level, this case is a detailed examination of organizational members navigating the negotiation process during a fiscal crisis, but on a symbolic level this case demonstrates the communicative means through which oppositional groups negotiate core organizational values, and whether past values can lead organizations to a sustainable future. The observational depth of this case study was only possible through long term, full immersion ethnography, and this depth provides clarity to abstract concepts from CCO, ventriloquism, and institutional theory.
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Oatley, Thomas. "Toward a political economy of complex interdependence." European Journal of International Relations 25, no. 4 (April 26, 2019): 957–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066119846553.
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How should we theorize about international political economy in an era of complex interdependence? The global economy is much more interdependent today than it was 40 years ago. As a result, there is a widening appreciation that we need new theoretical tools to understand how complex interdependence arose, how it operates, and where it might be headed. I argue that to develop such tools, we must embrace new theoretical logics that more readily accommodate and explain change. I develop this point by drawing on complexity theories, ecology, and information theory. I first develop the core elements of a complexity-based approach and contrast it to the central assumptions of the Open Economy Politics approach. I then illustrate this complexity-oriented approach by using the logic of coevolution and the information–entropy cycle to explain key elements in the development of the 2008 global financial crisis.
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Fillotrani, Pablo, and C. Maria Keet. "Evidence-based lean conceptual data modelling languages." Journal of Computer Science and Technology 21, no. 2 (October 21, 2021): e10. http://dx.doi.org/10.24215/16666038.21.e10.
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Multiple logic-based reconstructions of conceptual data modelling languages such as EER, UML Class Diagrams, and ORM exist. They mainly cover various fragments of the languages and none are formalised such that the logic applies simultaneously for all three modelling language families as unifying mechanism. This hampers interchangeability, interoperability, and tooling support. In addition, due to the lack of a systematic design process of the logic used for the formalisation, hidden choices permeate the formalisations that have rendered them incompatible. We aim to address these problems, first, by structuring the logic design process in a methodological way. We generalise and extend the DSL design process to apply to logic language design more generally and, in particular, by incorporating an ontological analysis of language features in the process. Second, we specify minimal logic profiles availing of this extended process, including the ontological commitments embedded in the languages, of evidence gathered of language feature usage, and of computational complexity insights from Description Logics (DL). The profiles characterise the essential logic structure needed to handle the semantics of conceptual models, therewith enabling the development of interoperability tools. There is no known DL language that matches exactly the features of thoseprofiles and the common core is small (in the tractable DL ALNI). Although hardly any inconsistencies can be derived with the profiles, it is promising for scalable runtime use of conceptual data models.
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Benassi, Chiara, and Niccolò Durazzi. "Dualisation as Class Conflict: The Case of Labour Market and Vocational Training in Germany." SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO, no. 159 (April 2021): 31–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/sl2021-159002.
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Popular accounts of labour market reforms in Western Europe have identified a process of dualisation over the last three decades, whereby service sector employ-ment has been deregulated while workers in the core manufacturing sector still en-joy high levels of employment protection and high wages. Two different labour market logics are thought to be in place between core and peripheral sectors and to co-exist in a stable equilibrium nurtured by the co-incidence of interests between capital and labour in core manufacturing sector, who jointly acted to safeguard workers in core sectors at the expense of peripheral service sectors. Building on the case studies of labour market and vocational training reform in Germany, this ar-ticle challenges this account. It is argued that processes of dualisation are best conceptualised as the contested outcome of a political conflict between capital and labour. Dualisation is not a stable equilibrium but rather the result of bargain-ing processes between employers who push for liberalization and unions who try to prevent it or - at least - mitigate it.
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Brown, Patrick, and Nicola Gale. "Theorising Risk Work: Analysing Professionals’ Lifeworlds and Practices." Professions and Professionalism 8, no. 1 (February 23, 2018): e1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.7577/pp.1988.
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The proliferation of risk logics within public and private sector organisational contexts where many professionals work has been studied as a phenomenon itself, as governance and in its impact on clients. The everyday experiences and practices of (para)professionals where risk has become a key and in some cases (re)defining feature or logic of everyday work—in assessing, intervening, advising and/or communicating—has received much less attention. We develop a theoretical framework for analysing this risk work, identifying three core and interwoven features—risk knowledge, interventions, and social relations. Central to our argument is that these features often stand in tension with one another, as intrinsic and implicit features of risk knowledge—probabilities, categories and values—become explicit and awkward in everyday practices and interactions. We explore key analytical trajectories suggested by our theoretical framework—in particular, the ways in which tensions emerge, remain (partially) hidden or are reconciled in practice.
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Horvath, Kenneth. "Fixed Narratives and Entangled Categorizations: Educational Problematizations in Times of Politicized and Stratified Migration." Social Inclusion 6, no. 3 (August 30, 2018): 237–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v6i3.1541.
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Western European migration and citizenship regimes have undergone profound transformations over the past decades. The massive politicization and stratification of migration are key features of these dynamics. Focusing on the case of Germany, this article investigates how these developments affect logics of educational practice. It is argued that teachers, faced with increasingly complex and uncertain situations, systematically draw on categories that combine political and educational logics. These “entangled categories” do hardly allow to unravel the complex configurations currently at stake at the intersection of migration and education. A secondary analysis of TIMSS-2015 data is performed to substantiate the article’s core hypothesis: these forms of categorization have crystallized into patterns of educational problematization that couple perceptions of educational challenges, professional self-images, and didactic approaches. These fixed narratives disproportionally affect migrant children from underprivileged social backgrounds. They hence have important implications both for our understanding of educational inequalities in times of politicized and stratified migration and for furthering professional reflexivity.
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García Gutiérrez, Antonio. "Desclassification in knowledge organization: a post-epistemological essay." Transinformação 23, no. 1 (April 2011): 05–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0103-37862011000100001.
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The contents of the digital network stem from different forms, logics and cultures of knowledge. Once on the Net, however, they are all submitted to unifying formats and logics provided by digital technology itself. A technology is, first of all, the product of a given culture. Every culture and identity classifies and names all kinds of material and symbolic objects. Nowadays, the West is the one culture that has taken upon itself the task of global classification supported by its own digital networks. Classification is an epistemological tool provided by modern rationality whose internal structures and modes of inference are derived from metonymic, dichotomic and analogical reductions of the diversity of current worlds. In this paper, a kind of practical Hermeneutics, called "declassification", is introduced and proposed as the route to a knowledge which overcomes organizational epistemology. Declassification is an open system that installs logical pluralism in the core of understanding and enunciation processes through meta-cognitive tools.
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Yang, Yunfan, Luyao Han, Bohan Zhang, and Xiong Yang. "Research on Supply Chain Integration under Service-oriented Logics and Joint Influence of Dual Innovation on Corporate Performance Path." BCP Business & Management 13 (November 11, 2021): 101–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/bcpbm.v13i.59.
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The rapid development of economic globalization and the promotion of emerging technologies have spawned a Service-oriented logic that gradually dominates the contemporary industry, and the path for manufacturing companies to improve performance has become more and more complicated. Based on this background, the article uses the data of A-share listed companies in the manufacturing industry in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta in 2019, and uses the research method of fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to empirically study the core path and mechanism of multiple complex factors that affect corporate performance. The research results show that manufacturing companies can choose four paths to improve corporate performance (supply chain integration-driven based on internal control, servicing and market dual logic based on internal control-based integration-driven, relying on exploration and innovation-based integration-driven, Relying on the integration-driven type of dual innovation and balance), and found that the core role of supply chain integration and servicing level has become more prominent, becoming a key factor leading to high corporate performance. This research is helpful to identify the influence mechanism of supply chain integration, service level and other factors on corporate performance, and grasp the core of configuration, which has certain reference significance for corporate managers.
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Smythe, SA. "Black Life, Trans Study." TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 8, no. 2 (May 1, 2021): 158–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23289252-8890593.
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Abstract This essay thinks through some possibilities and implications for a trans studies formation in Europe and across the West that takes as some of its core concerns and ethical commitments black people, black life, and black capacities for insurgency, experimentation, and trans nonbinary method. Writing against the logics of displacement, disciplinarity, and depletion, what follows is a brief meditation on both the institutionalization of trans studies in Western academia and the material disregard of black people, trans people, migrants, and other oppressed and vulnerable people under the extractive regimes of cisheteropatriarchial white supremacy.
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Lemke, Melinda, and Lei Zhu. "Successful futures? New economy business logics, child rights, and Welsh educational reform." Policy Futures in Education 16, no. 3 (February 6, 2018): 251–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478210317751269.
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The well-documented global economic disinvestment in schooling necessitates critical examination of policy discourses that influence educational systems and student learning. Situated within the critical policy studies tradition, the present study conducted a critical discourse analysis of the Donaldson Report (2015), a proposed comprehensive Welsh learning and accountability system. We begin with a brief discussion of research focused on global accountability reform within the new economy. To situate the Donaldson Report within this research, we review literature on reforms within the United Kingdom, with special attention to the Welsh educational policy context, which also includes incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into national policy. Findings highlight a limited Report focus on core educational rights embodied within the UNCRC and recommendations for a new system that leans toward a more technocratic and performance orientation. We conclude with implications for the exercise of children’s rights within Welsh schooling.
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Leander, Anna. "Digital/commercial (in)visibility." European Journal of Social Theory 20, no. 3 (September 22, 2016): 348–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368431016668365.
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This article explores one aspect of digital politics, the politics of videos and more specifically of DAESH recruitment videos. It proposes a practice theoretical approach to the politics of DAESH recruitment videos focused on the re-production of regimes of (in)visibility. The article develops an argument demonstrating specifically how digital and commercial logics characterize the aesthetic, circulatory, and infrastructuring practices re-producing the regime of (in)visibility. It shows that digital/commercial logics are at the heart of the combinatorial marketing of multiple, contradictory images of the DAESH polity in the videos; that they are core to the participatory, entrepreneurial, individualized and affective processes of contagion determining whom the videos reach and involve; and that they shape the sorting, linking, flagging and censoring of the videos that define their accessibility on the internet. The theoretical and political cost of overlooking these digital and commercial characteristics of DAESH visibility practices are high. It perpetuates misconceptions of how the videos work and what their politics are and it reinforces the digital Orientalism/Occidentalism in which these misconceptions are anchored.
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Gornitzka, Åse, and Ulf Sverdrup. "Societal Inclusion in Expert Venues: Participation of Interest Groups and Business in the European Commission Expert Groups." Politics and Governance 3, no. 1 (March 31, 2015): 151–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v3i1.130.
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The elaborate system of expert groups that the European Commission organises is a key feature of EU everyday governance and also a potential channel of societal involvement in EU policy making. This article examines the patterns of participation in the expert group system of a broad set of societal actors—NGOs, social partners/unions, consumer organisations, and business/enterprise. The analysis is based on a large-N study of Commission expert groups. Taking on an “executive politics” perspective, we identify main patterns of participation and analyse organisational factors that affect the inclusion of societal actors in the expert group system. We find that such actors are strongly involved in this system. Yet, there is a striking heterogeneity in the extent to which the Commission’s administrative units include societal groups as experts in the policy process. The logics that underpin the inclusion of business organisations are not identical to the logics of inclusion applied to social partners and NGOs. The Commission as the core supranational executive is thus selectively open for societal involvement in its expert groups system, and this bureaucratic openness is patterned, clustered, and conditioned by structural factors that affect how the Commission as a multi-organisation operates.
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Dincă, Irina. "Configurarea Paradigmei Terţului Inclus – Blaga, Bachelard, Lupaşcu1." Lucian Blaga Yearbook 20, no. 1 (June 1, 2019): 14–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/clb-2019-0002.
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AbstractThis paper aims to present the connection and continuity between the implicit principles that configure the transgressive visions of Lucian Blaga, Gaston Bachelard and Ștefan Lupașcu, which inaugurate a paradigmatic change in consensus with the revolutionary ideas circulating in science, philosophy, poetry and art across the 20th century. The subtle paradigmatic axis which crosses implicitly or explicitly the work of Lucian Blaga proves to be the transgressive attempt of integration and overcoming of the antinomies under the sign of the included middle which underlies the transfiguring core of the dogmatic paradox. Thus, the nucleus of Blaga’s epistemological vision, the dogmatic paradox – a synthesis of the antinomies solved not in concrete level, but in transcendent one, creating a paradoxical logics – proves to be close to Gaston Bachelard’s transgressive theoretical constructions – the surrationalism and the philosophy of no –, as well as to Ştefan Lupaşcu’s integrative perspective of the dynamic logics of the contradictory. The subtly related nexus of theoretical ideas developed by Blaga, Bachelard and Lupașcu appear to be essential milestones in the avant-garde of the paradigmatic chain of the included middle, opening it towards the present European episteme.
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Kang, Hyoung Seok, Ju Yeon Lee, and Sang Do Noh. "A dynamic processing methodology of manufacturing data for the automated throughput analysis in cyber-physical production environment." Concurrent Engineering 27, no. 2 (April 22, 2019): 155–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1063293x19842264.
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Various studies have been conducted on cyber-physical production systems (CPPS), a core technology for the implementation of smart manufacturing. However, existing studies are mostly conceptual or at an early stage, such as the proposal of a reference architecture. To achieve the practical implementation of CPPS, a systematic methodology for the collection, processing, and application of the data for CPPS is required. This is because CPPS can be successfully implemented only when processing criteria and application methods for the diverse data that change in real time because of the nature of a manufacturing shop floor are presented. Various technologies and systems have been developed for collecting raw data from a shop floor, but they are mainly focused on the automation of manufacturing. Thus, more detailed and systematic research is required for more efficient application of such technologies using a cyber model, which is the core of CPPS. For this purpose, in this article, a logic-based systematic methodology that can generate a throughput analysis model from the real-time data of a shop floor in a CPPS environment was proposed. Furthermore, logics that perform the Mapping, Scaling, and Calibration of the data of the shop floor into the machine, process, and factory levels were developed and their application to throughput analysis was described through a case study. The results of this study are expected to facilitate the practical implementation of CPPS and contribute to the successful implementation of smart manufacturing and the resultant revival of the manufacturing industry.
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Tatlić, Šefik. "Atavistic Core of Postmodern Totalitarianism. Depoliticization of Death and the Sovereignty of Capitalism." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, no. 14 (October 15, 2017): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i14.213.
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Although the First World, in the light of decay of geopolitical unipolarity of the world, did not become the undisputed master, it has managed to install its own epistemological and ideological principles at the core of capitalist modernity and all social-political regimes that accepted it as universal modernity. These principles, however, don't originate from the process of transcending premodern epistemological logics, but from their extending into contemporaneity, which meant that politics was actually collapsed into being a mere extension of pre-modern epistemological normatives. As a result, death, as the plethora of recent imperial aggressions in the Middle East and North Africa testify to, did not become just a residue of hegemonization of global capitalism, it became a technology of social differentiation and a conceptual category/practice that obscenely reinvents politics as the instrument of imposition of death; as the extension of the ideology that depoliticizes death and as the instrument of providing ideological purpose to the capitalist system of power. Article received: June 2, 2017; Article accepted: June 12, 2017; Published online: October 15, 2017; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Tatlić, Šefik. "Atavistic Core of Postmodern Totalitarianism. Depoliticization of Death and the Sovereignty of Capitalism." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 14 (2017): 57-68. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i14.213
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Go, Julian. "Myths of nation and empire." Thesis Eleven 139, no. 1 (March 23, 2017): 69–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513617700046.
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While empires and civic-liberal nations have been seen as opposite and even contradictory political forms, this essay argues that they are similar. Both create and depend upon hierarchical differentiation accompanied by exclusion and subjugation. Furthermore, they are logically related. The hierarchies typically attributed to empires are inscribed into the very theoretical and institutional core of civic-liberal nationhood. Using the American ‘liberal empire-state’ as the example, the essay uncovers these hierarchies and discusses two logics of imperial differentiation: the subjugation of bodies and of territory. It suggests that exploring the shifting lines and principles of hierarchization offers the most fruitful analytic strategy for examining the history of nations and empires.
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Czarzasty, Jan, and Adam Mrozowicki. "Is a new paradigm needed? A commentary on the analysis by Sławomir Adamczyk." European Journal of Industrial Relations 24, no. 2 (March 2, 2018): 193–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959680118760631.
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In this commentary, we support the core thesis of Sławomir Adamczyk that there exist ‘two trade union worlds’ within the European Trade Union Confederation, but our emphasis is somewhat different. The East–West divide can be explained both in terms of structural differences and of contrasting expectations about the role of European integration, rooted in the diverse histories and experiences of national affiliates. In the context of recurring particularistic logics which privilege national or regional interests over transnational labour solidarity, the need to create a new paradigm of trade union cooperation based on the recognition, articulation and, if possible, reconciliation of diverse workers’ interests can be legitimately seen as a major challenge to European trade union institutions.
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Lichtenheld, Adam G. "Explaining Population Displacement Strategies in Civil Wars: A Cross-National Analysis." International Organization 74, no. 2 (2020): 253–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020818320000089.
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AbstractWhy do combatants uproot civilians in wartime? In this paper I identify cross-national variation in three population-displacement strategies—cleansing, depopulation, and forced relocation—and test different explanations for their use by state actors. I advance a new “assortative” theory to explain forced relocation, the most common type. I argue that combatants displace not only to expel undesirable populations, but also to identify the undesirables in the first place by forcing people to send signals of loyalty and affiliation based on whether, and to where, they flee. This makes communities more “legible” and facilitates the extraction of rents and recruits. I test these arguments using a novel Strategic Displacement in Civil Conflict data set (1945–2008). Consistent with my expectations, different displacement strategies occur in different contexts and appear to follow different logics. Cleansing is more likely in conventional wars, where territorial conquest takes primacy, while forced relocation is more likely in irregular wars, where identification problems are most acute. The evidence indicates that cleansing follows a logic of punishment. The results for relocation, however, are consistent with the implications of my assortative logic: it is more likely to be employed by resource-constrained incumbents fighting insurgencies in “illegible” areas—rural, peripheral territories. A case study from Uganda based on in-depth fieldwork provides evidence for the assortative mechanism. As the most comprehensive analysis of wartime displacement strategies to date, this paper challenges some core assumptions about a devastating form of contemporary political violence.
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van der Vleuten, Anna, and Anouka van Eerdewijk. "The Fragmented Inclusion of Gender Equality in AU-EU Relations in Times of Crises." Political Studies Review 18, no. 3 (May 16, 2020): 444–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478929920918830.
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Facing internal and external crises, the European Union and the African Union have revitalized their interregional cooperation. This article theorizes interregional norm dynamics and explores how, in times of crises, gender equality norms are shaped in interregional relations between the African Union and the European Union. The question is all the more relevant because gender equality is shaped very differently in the European Union and the African Union policies. The African Union has adopted a rather holistic understanding of gender equality, while the European Union approach is constrained by a market-making logic. Also, since the 2008 economic crisis, gender equality policies within the European Union seem to stagnate while they seem to expand in the African Union. Our analysis of core texts shows that at interregional level attention to gender equality is fragmented. Even though in some respects the African Union gender equality norms are more encompassing, and gendered effects of crises in the European Union would merit renewed attention to gender equality, the European Union norms and interests dominate the agenda. Showing how power asymmetries between and disjointed logics of regional organizations impact interregional gender equality norms, the article contributes to the scarce literature on interregional norm dynamics.
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Yu, Hanzhi, and Lan Xue. "Shaping the Evolution of Regime Complex." Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 25, no. 4 (December 10, 2019): 645–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19426720-02504005.
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Abstract Regime complex has been widely recognized in many governance issues, but the evolutionary dynamics in regime complex are largely overlooked. This article explores the evolutionary dynamics by conducting a case study on the regime complex for human genetic data, which has evolved as an alternation between stable and unstable periods, known as punctuated equilibrium. Given that existing theories fail to explain the evolutionary pattern, a multiactor analysis framework is set up with the core argument that the evolution of regime complex is shaped by interactions between governance issues outside the regime complex, and a combination of actor power and institutional logics within them. Besides its specific contribution to the literature on regime complex, this article has general implications for research in global governance.
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Asiyanbi, Adeniyi, and Kate Massarella. "Transformation is what you expect, models are what you get: REDD+ and models in conservation and development." Journal of Political Ecology 27, no. 1 (May 6, 2020): preprint. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23540.
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Models increasingly pervade conservation and development practice – model policies, model countries, model regions, model states, model projects, model villages, model communities and so on. These are idealized, bounded, miniature entities that seek to demonstrate the efficacy of a more substantive policy, scheme or intervention. Although political ecologists and critical scholars have analyzed models in specific interventions, there has been relatively little reflection on the common logics central to models more generally. Drawing on critical conservation and development literature and in-depth case studies of REDD+ in Tanzania and Nigeria, we identify and elaborate three core model logics: 1) problematization of the field of intervention and valorization of microcosms within it; 2) isolation and bounding which seek to order complexity and etch microcosms in space and time; 3) enrolment of actors. Although ambitious and transformational in its claims and aspirations, REDD+ has thus far manifested as an extensive network of models across socio-political scales. We argue that idealized REDD+ models enable proponents to demonstrate and 'sell' REDD+ as a 'successful' intervention, thereby allowing the scheme to persist in policy circles in spite of its failures on the ground and its lack of viability at scale. We therefore argue that models often become an end in themselves, paradoxically failing to herald the transformational intervention they were originally meant to epitomize.Keywords: Conservation, development, models, Nigeria, Tanzania, REDD+