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The theory of signed graph was originated as early as 1946, when Heider studied the attitudes and cognitive organization towards persons [12]. Then in 1956, Cartwright and Harary made a conclusion of Heider’s research by graph theory, which provided a formal definition of structural balance [...
in management theory, in pro-business political and journalistic circles—largely share the cult-studs’ oft-expressed desire to take on hierarchies, their tendency to find “elitism” lurking behind any criticism of mass culture, and their pious esteem for audience agency. Here, too, from...
Thegame theoryapproach to free will truncates morality and responsibility, reducing not only personhood to mechanism, but also the door entirely on meaningful, game changing approaches altogether. Free will allows us not only to elect a single decision from a set of fixed alternatives, but also t...
First, we derive a measure of trust in science using an item response theory (IRT) model fitted to seven items tapping different aspects of trust in science. Second, we fit location–scale models predicting between-individual and between-country heterogeneity in the mean and standard deviation of...
It is often a sterile exercise to attach labels to particular theorists in the hope that this will clearly indicate their beliefs and fashions of analysis: this is one of the lessons to be drawn from recent controversy on pluralism in industrial relations. Practical persons are usually unconcerned...
Ecological Modernization Theory (EMT) started as a school of thought that focused on the required institutional changes in modern industrial societies so that it is possible to overcome the ecological crisis caused by the societies themselves (Mol1995). The basic idea behind this theory is that it...