{"title":"New rules of research? – Report from the post-modern university","authors":"L. Henriksen","doi":"10.7146/propracon.v9i2.117565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/propracon.v9i2.117565","url":null,"abstract":"When the university Marxists in the 1970s wanted to have ‘research for the people’ as an alternative to research for research (art for art’s sake), they could hardly imagine that this claim would, in the future, be changed to ‘research for profit’. This change from ‘research’ to ‘research for profit’ has had severe consequences for the research community, for the universities and, most importantly, for research in general – for the research process and for the criteria for legitimising and evaluating what is, or is not, good research. In this paper I investigate the present conditions for conducting university research through a case study of external partners buying research at the university – ‘The Beef Report’. I do this through investigating different conceptions of science and research – romantic, modern and postmodern – in arguing that today’s university is a post-modern university (Lyotard, 1979), and that this post-modern university poses very significant new problems for both research and researchers.","PeriodicalId":426748,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Pragmatic Constructivism","volume":"199 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125867445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding the Anthropocene world – contemporary difficulties","authors":"Michael Paulsen","doi":"10.7146/propracon.v9i2.117568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/propracon.v9i2.117568","url":null,"abstract":"It is proposed that we need to develop a new educational language game that is responsive to both a) our understanding of the world and b) the world in itself, but also responsive to c) the fact that we now live in an Anthropocene world, and that this d) calls for a shift in both our world understanding and our view on education. Very broadly speaking this can be understood as a demand for a shift in what education should be about. In the Late Holocene humans fostered education as an enterprise that worked with helping new generations with changing themselves for the (presumed) better. Yet the educational aim was tied to the Holocene world view, and also its possibility of being actualized was conditioned by the life conditions of the Holocene world. When we today witness a shift in world view and world conditions, it is argued that it calls for an adjustment of what education should be about and how it should proceed. If we keep on with Holocene education – through families, schools, companies, art etc. – it implies that we try to keep on helping new generations to change themselves to function in a world that no longer exists and tie them to a worldview that is highly problematic, reductive and destructive.","PeriodicalId":426748,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Pragmatic Constructivism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130821318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human vs machine intelligence:","authors":"Thomas E. Bolander","doi":"10.7146/propracon.v9i1.113926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/propracon.v9i1.113926","url":null,"abstract":"To be able to predict the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the required human competences of the future, it is firstand foremost necessary to get an overview of what AI at all is and how it differs from human intelligence. The main goalof this paper is to provide such an overview to readers who are not experts in the area. The focus of the paper is on thesimilarities and differences between human and machine intelligence, since understanding that is of essential importanceto be able to predict which human tasks and jobs are likely to be automatised by AI - and what consequences it will have.","PeriodicalId":426748,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Pragmatic Constructivism","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134291271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Janne Mämmelä, Tuomas Korhonen, T. Juuti, P. Julkunen
{"title":"Communicating design knowledge to support technology management in the manufacturing industry:","authors":"Janne Mämmelä, Tuomas Korhonen, T. Juuti, P. Julkunen","doi":"10.7146/propracon.v9i1.113925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/propracon.v9i1.113925","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to the advance pragmatic constructivist understanding about communication in the productdevelopment context. In particular, the paper provides new understanding about how proactive truth about designknowledge can be constructed and communicated within product development actors. The paper shows how companyrepresentatives in the manufacturing environment, e.g., managers and engineers can together understand the customervalue-creation mechanisms of a specific product and integrate their expert knowledge into visual form. Building thecollective understanding requires communication between these actors. Ultimately, the actors may be able to construct auseful proactive truth about related business potentials and thereby support technology management in the productdevelopment context.","PeriodicalId":426748,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Pragmatic Constructivism","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115687864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Helping as the topoi for interventionist research from a pragmatic constructivist point of view","authors":"Morten Jakobsen","doi":"10.7146/propracon.v9i1.113633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/propracon.v9i1.113633","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426748,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Pragmatic Constructivism","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126859714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language Games, Dialogue and the Other","authors":"L. Henriksen","doi":"10.7146/propracon.v9i1.113631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/propracon.v9i1.113631","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426748,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Pragmatic Constructivism","volume":"40 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125902588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: Seeing beyond social “bubbles” by the help of pragmatic constructivism","authors":"Morten Jakobsen, Tuomas Korhonen, T. Laine","doi":"10.7146/propracon.v9i1.113630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/propracon.v9i1.113630","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426748,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Pragmatic Constructivism","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123038908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the Post-Truth Turn: From Habitus Based to Paranoiac Based Performance Management","authors":"L. Nørreklit, L. Jack, Hanne Nørreklit","doi":"10.7146/propracon.v8i1.111436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/propracon.v8i1.111436","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426748,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Pragmatic Constructivism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128468590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Academic-based new product development research project and management accounting practice: a pragmatic constructivist approach","authors":"Riccardo Giannetti, Fabio Magnacca, Giovanna Mariani","doi":"10.7146/propracon.v8i1.111440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/propracon.v8i1.111440","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract","PeriodicalId":426748,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Pragmatic Constructivism","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124079697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stefan Schaper, M. Giuliani, Maria Serena Chiucchi
{"title":"The Actor’s Role in the Survival of non-financial Management and Reporting Practices: the case of IC reporting in Denmark and Italy","authors":"Stefan Schaper, M. Giuliani, Maria Serena Chiucchi","doi":"10.7146/propracon.v8i1.111437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/propracon.v8i1.111437","url":null,"abstract":"According to Chaminade and Roberts (2003, p. 733) “(...) a dominant accounting perspective can lead to an excessive focus on measurement issues and little attention to management processes (of implementing Intellectual Capital in organizations)”. By applying a pragmatic constructivist (PC) perspective, this paper intends to shed a different light on the demise of Intellectual Capital (IC) reporting by focusing on the role of the involved actors and how they construct reality. Therefore, it compares the government-driven IC Statement (ICS) in Denmark (Nielsen et al., 2017; Schaper 2016) with the case of voluntary consulting-driven adoption of IC reporting in Italy (Chiucchi and Giuliani, 2017; Giuliani and Chiucchi, 2018). The intent thereby is to derive policyand managerial-relevant insights for the future installment of internal/external reporting frameworks as successfully lasting practices. Indeed, as suggested by Nørreklit et al. (2006), merely providing guidelines is not sufficient to solve the gap between theoretical knowledge and actual doing: it instead requires the integration of the four dimensions of PC to not end up in a realitydoing gap. The latter has arguably been the case of IC seen as a theory and practice respectively.","PeriodicalId":426748,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Pragmatic Constructivism","volume":"169 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122650468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}