A Reconsideration of Malayo-Polynesian Social Organization

Some Irregular Reflexes of Proto-malayo-polynesian Vowels in the Rejang Language of Sumatra*

At issue is the role of dialect evidence to explain certain irregular reflexes of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian vowels in Rejang. According to Blust (1984), the Musi dialect of Rejang seems to exemplify two types of sound change, one conditioned solely by phonological factors and the other by nonphonological (semantic or grammatical) factors; thus PMP *a irregularly failed to diphthongize in kin term...

Niche Construction: the Proposal for Reconsideration of Organization-environment Interaction

1. ORGANIZATION-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS Business practitioners are well aware that the environment of firms and organizations is not neutral to their actions. Large companies (especially those in consumer markets, e.g. FMCG) can form consumer preferences and manipulate their demand. Conjointly, firms can define new ‘rules of the game’ in their markets, or lobby legislative acts that would establi...

Rational Choice Theory: A Cultural Reconsideration

Economists have heralded the formulation of the expected utility theorem as a universal method of choice under uncertainty. In their seminal paper, Stigler and Becker (Stigler & Becker, 1977) declared that “human behavior can be explained by a generalized calculus of utility-maximizing behavior” (p.76). The universality of the rational choice theory has been widely criticized by psychologists, ...

A Reconsideration of Tolerance:

A Reconsideration of Preconditions

This paper is part of an attempt to introduce intentionality of the actor to planning decisions. As a first step in this process the usual representations for actions used by planning systems must be reevaluated. this paper argues for the elimination of preconditions and qualification conditions from action representation in favor of explicit representation of intention, situated reasoning abou...