The debate over whether a dominant paradigm is appropriate for the rapidly evolving organizational learning (OL) research has resulted in significant discord among researchers in the field. This critical issue paper compares and contrasts the strengths and weaknesses of three widely used research paradigms in OL research: positivism, interpretivism, and critical science. It argues that in many ...

Despite the benefits that bats offer ecosystem, these animals are feared and attacked. The COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated this situation. Today there is an urgent need to address human-bat conflict develop conservation policies. Understanding peoples’ attitudes towards critical for process. This study aimed design Bats Attitudes Standard Scale (BAtSS) analyze its psychometric properties. We d...

Correspondence: Ruth Davies, School of Health Science, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK. E-mail: [email protected] DAVIES R. (2004) Journal of Advanced Nursing 46(5), 506–513 New understandings of parental grief: literature review Background. Health professionals have a critical role in supporting bereaved parents and rely on models of grief to inform and gui...

This ‘polemical’ paper is concerned with ‘testing’ key elements of Elias’s theory of ‘civilising processes’ in a non-positivistic sense. More particularly, Elias’s undifferentiated concept of violence is broken down into ten categories, some of which are then used to shed light on war, genocide, crime, punishment and sport seen in long-term perspective. The work of a range of authors who are mo...

In this paper we will reconsider the dichotomy of "perspective" that conventionally informs most methodological discussions. This dichotomy separates the perspective of the actor from the perspective of the social scientist and is a crucial premiss of positivistic social science. It is not the separation of actor and scientist that is problematic; if the activities of the scientist are not negl...

This article focuses on the development of public health in Brazil, with the aim of analyzing the present process of decentralization of health care. The authors argue that the neoliberal or conservative position is unable to offer a reasonable solution to problems in the health care system. On the other hand, the reformist position concentrates its attention on the health system and its admini...

this article tries to investigate the range and some features of scientific realism from the perspectives advocated by sayyid jamāl ad-din asad ābādi. it applies grounded theory, documentary research method, and some interpretative and exploratory views. sayyid jamāl has tried to reveal the capacity of religious knowledge including modern world, using hermeneutics insight and qurān’s concepts r...

This Position Paper provides a description of our ongoing work with the Paris fire-fighter brigade. Based on our pragmatic experience in designing and developing ubiquitous computing solutions for a domain that poses complex physical and cognitive restrictions, we believe that there is a need for a post-positivistic perspective on context aware systems. Here we came up with the design concept o...