Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm

Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm

In response to the proposition that communication lacks disciplinary status because of deficient core knowledge, I propose that we turn an ostensible weakness into a strength. We should identify our mission as bringing together insights and theories that would otherwise remain scattered in other disciplines. Because of the lack of interchange among the disciplines, hypotheses thoroughly discred...

Toward a New Paradigm

This paper provides a context for the Dahlem Workshop on “Earth Systems Science and Sustainability.” We begin by characterizing the contemporary epoch of Earth history in which humanity has emerged as a major — and uniquely self-reflexive — geological force. We turn next to the extraordinary revolution in our understanding of the Earth system that is now underway, pointing out how it has built ...

Toward a paradigm of symbiotic entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship often involves independent firms that compete with one another. In this article, we discuss an alternate entrepreneurship strategy, one involving symbiosis – an approach that allows entrepreneurs and their firms to benefit from a multi-polar distribution of power and control. We believe that this is especially helpful in the process of internationalisation. Rather than focusing...

Toward a Paradigm of General Anesthesia

THEORIES of general anesthetic mechanism have evolved from the unitary hypothesis of Claude Bernard in the nineteenth century to our current understanding of the multiple receptors and neural systems affected by anesthetic agents. As the scientific study of general anesthesia has progressed, it has become clear that early unifying theories of anesthetic mechanism, although elegant, do not accou...

Toward a 21st Century Population Policy Paradigm