Metamethodology and Historiography: Towards a Consistent Empirical Genetic World View

Empirical Horizons in Islamic Historiography: Abū Rayḥān Al-Birunī

From the main features of the tradition of Islamic historiography is variety of its forms, types, methods, topics and schools. However, today, Islamic historiography is known by its mere narrative methods and schools, which are only part of this widespread tradition. In other words, the narrative aspect of Islamic historiography have overshadowed its other aspects. Therefore, researchers in thi...

A Fundamentally Irreversible World as an Opportunity towards a Consistent Understanding of Quantum and Cosmological Contexts

In a preceding publication a fundamentally oriented and irreversible world was shown to be derivable from the important principle of least action. A consequence of such a paradigm change is avoidance of paradoxes within a “dynamic” quantum physics. This becomes essentially possible because fundamental irreversibility allows consideration of the “entropy” concept in elementary processes. For thi...

Seizing the opportunity: towards a historiography of information systems

Historical perspectives are only timidly entering the world of IS research compared to historical research in management or organization studies. If major IS outlets have already published history-oriented papers, the number of historical papers although increasing remains low. We carried out a thematic analysis of all papers on History and IS published between 1972 and 2009 indexed on ABI and ...

Towards effective knowledge systems: Helping consultants identify their world view

From Multiple Images to a Consistent View