Takuan's Theory of Discipline

A Theory of Discipline for Professional Misconduct

Towards a Biological Coding Theory Discipline

General abstract: How can information required for the proper functioning of a cell, an organism, or a species be transmitted in an error-introducing environment? Clearly, similar to engineering communication systems, biological systems must incorporate error control in their information transmission processes. If genetic information in the DNA sequence is encoded in a manner similar to error c...

Sustaining Information Systems as a Discipline: Towards an Evolving Theory of Information Systems Discipline

When designing information systems as complex systems through Information Systems (IS) discipline, researchers and practitioners not only apply models, methods and theories of management and control – they also use the same from engineering, linguistics, cognitive science, environmental science, biology, social science, artificial intelligence, systems thinking and cybernetics and etc. This div...

Translation Studies: Pre-Discipline, Discipline, Interdiscipline, and Post-Discipline

In the West, Translation Studies as a discipline has a very short but lively history. Founded in the early 1970s in the Low Countries—Holland and Belgium—translation studies is a fairly new field. Yet, today some theorists suggest that the discipline is too limited to translated texts and excludes much translation data being generated from other fields of inquiry, including theater, art, archit...

A Theory of International Currency: Competition and Discipline∗

We explicitly consider strategic interaction between governments to study currency competition and its effects on the circulation of currencies and welfare in a two-country twocurrency search theoretic model. Each government finances public goods by means of seigniorage. Compared with a regime with two local currencies, a regime with one international currency allows the issuer of the internati...