This paper is concerned with gaining greater insight into the interplay between agency and structure in industrial marketing scholarship. The paper’s intent is to embed Midgley’s notion of critical pluralism within this endeavour. The paper commends the movement towards increased deployment of critical realism, but cautions against the dangers of creating further atomism in marketing theory by ...

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In this contribution we start with a critical reading of assumptions that have led to the postulation of a dialogical and polyphonic self. We critically review the empirical basis for these assumptions as resulting from therapeutically informed techniques according to which clients/participants are led to engage in particular modes of self-reflection and conclude that the positions, valuations,...

traditionalism is a novel school of thought of the twentieth century which in the conflict between tradition and modernity that emerged in the age of enlightenment and flourished, it advocates the tradition. beliefs of this school such as perennial philosophy, which is located in the heart of every tradition, has caused to believe legitimacy of all deep-rooted traditions and consequently, the l...

Death concept, death definition, death criterion and death test pluralism has been described by some as a problematic approach. Others have claimed it to be a promising way forward within modern pluralistic societies. This article describes the New Jersey Death Definition Law and the Japanese Transplantation Law. Both of these laws allow for more than one death concept within a single legal sys...

Various cognitive and computational models have addressed the use of previous experience to understand a new domain. In particular, research in case-based reasoning has explored the ideas of retrieving and adapting previous experience in the form of cases. If the cases take the form of plans, the process is referred to as case-based planning. We have developed a computational model of Explorato...