Mixing methodologies and paradigmatic commensurability

Mixing methodologies and paradigmatic commensurability

My first critical awareness of the tensions between different methodologies arose 5 years ago when preparing the materials for two undergraduate courses: ‘Operations Management’ and ‘Strategy’. The former was concerned with explanation in which there is the assumption of causality; the operations environment could be designed in an optimal manner with predictable behaviour—the domain of those f...

Signal mixing in a ratchet device: commensurability and current control

Rectification current in overdamped ratchets can be easily controlled by applying two driving signals and tuning either their relative phase or their frequency ratio. The interplay of the two inputs generates intriguing transport mechanisms that can be implemented to optimize shuttling and separation of particles in a variety of physical and technological applications. PACS. 05.40.-a Fluctuatio...

A Paradigmatic Analysis Contrasting Information Systems Development Approaches and Methodologies

This paper analyses the fundamental philosophical assumptions of five “contrasting” information systems development (ISD) approaches: the interactionist approach, the speech act-based approach, the soft systems methodology approach, the trade unionist approach, and the professional work practice approach. These five approaches are selected for analysis because they illustrate alternative philos...

Developing Conceptualizations of Europeanization and European Integration: Mixing Methodologies By

Traces, lengths, axes and commensurability

This paper is based on three lectures given by the author at the workshop, “Hyperbolic geometry and arithmetic: a crossview” held at The Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse in November 2012. The goal of the lectures was to describe recent work on the extent to which various geometric and analytical properties of hyperbolic 3-manifolds determine the commensurability class of such manifolds. This ...