Organizing and Knowing: Finding Approaches in a Processual Manner

Special Issue: Knowledge, Knowing, and Organizations: Knowing in Practice: Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing

In this paper, I outline a perspective on knowing in practice which highlights the essential role of human action in knowing how to get things done in complex organizational work. The perspective suggests that knowing is not a static embedded capability or stable disposition of actors, but rather an ongoing social accomplishment, constituted and reconstituted as actors engage the world in pract...

Finding minimal rare itemsets in a depth-first manner

Rare itemsets are an important sort of patterns that have a wide range of practical applications. Although mining rare patterns poses specific algorithmic problems, it is yet insufficiently studied. In a previous work, we proposed a levelwise approach for rare itemset mining. Here, we examine the benefits of depth-first methods for that task as such methods are known to outperform the levelwise...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Towards a processual microbial ontology

Standard microbial evolutionary ontology is organized according to a nested hierarchy of entities at various levels of biological organization. It typically detects and defines these entities in relation to the most stable aspects of evolutionary processes, by identifying lineages evolving by a process of vertical inheritance from an ancestral entity. However, recent advances in microbiology in...

Strategic Thinking - Processual Context