Interpreting Nationalist Texts: a post-structuralist approach

Post-Structuralist Game Theory

The manuscript offers a conceptualization and formalization of the notion of choice undecidability of an individual actor within a post-structural approach to social theory. In contrast to conventional decision theories which posit that the actors are able to delineate the set of alternative choices, this paper explores how choice undecidability shapes the decision-making process in strategic s...

Systems Thinking – A Post-Structuralist Critique

Systems thinking, understood in a broad sense, encompasses so-called 'hard systems' techniques that include the dynamic simulation of linear and non-linear systems (of differential and difference equations), and stochastic optimal control and filtering theory. The latter provides the quantitative and theoretical core of finance theory (asset and option pricing, portfolio management, risk manage...

Producing and Interpreting Debug Texts

Evaluation of Conceptual Models - A Structuralist Approach

The quality and thus the validation of conceptual models are of high economic importance. However, only little empirical work has focused on their evaluation so far. This raises the question whether a holistic approach to determining the quality of conceptual models is available yet. In order to describe the current state of research and to expose the so far neglected research fields we develop...

Feminist Post-Structuralist Discourse Analysis – A New Theoretical and Methodological Approach?

In recent years, a number of doctoral and post-doctoral students have begun to explore and experiment with the use of a new theoretical and methodological approach to gender and language study: that of Feminist PostStructuralist Discourse Analysis (FPDA). While there is a growing international interest in the FPDA approach, it is still relatively unknown in the wider community of discourse anal...