2012 JFDP Abstracts 5

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ADVANCINGREFLEXIVITYTHEORY:

ABSTRACTSPREPAREDIN2011-2012

Edited by Stuart Umpleby, Ramsey Opp, Mitali Sukhi, and

Zola Javzmaa

Research Proram in Social and Oranizational !earnin"he #eore $ashinton University

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THE A#ERICAN DREA# OF TENNESSEE $ILLIA#S: THE SOCIAL DI#ENSION

OF $ILLIA#S%S DRA#A

Na&e'(&a )*+lo,a


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CROSS-CLTRAL DIFFERENCES IN ENTREPRENERIAL TENDENCIES

A(.e! E.*e De./*/

4aculty o1 Economics and .dministrative Sciences

.nadolu University

Eskisehir, "urkey

Even thouh entrepreneurship is not ne*, its popularity is still ro*in rapidly as a result o1 a*ide rane o1 1actors+ Removal o1 the trade barriers, lobal economic recessions, advancements

in in1ormation and telecommunication technoloies, corporate restructurins, do*nsizin,

merers and acDuisitions are amon the maBor 1actors that have helped the topic to keep its

critical importance+ .s a result o1 the above mentioned conditions, entrepreneurship isincreasinly catchin the attention o1 academia as *ell as overnments, policy makers, ;#Os

and other pro1it or non3pro1it institutions+ $hilst many overnments are *orkin on ne* policies

to support entrepreneurship, hiher education institutions are constantly launchin ne* and

innovative prorams, courses and seminars on entrepreneurship+ .ll these e11orts have onecommon oal *hich is 1osterin and encourain entrepreneurial activities and innovation+ "his

paper eAplores ho* cultural 1actors a11ect the entrepreneurial tendencies o1 individuals 1rom across3cultural conteAt+

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CONCEPTIONS OF CO#PLEXITY AND I#PLICATIONS FOR ECONO#ICS

S!a*! A .3leb+

%epartment o1 Manaement

"he #eore $ashinton University

$ashinton, %&

Most o1 science consists o1 results obtained *ith rather simple descriptions C small numbers o1variables and o1ten linear relations amon them+ 2n recent years there has been ro*in interest

in compleA systems+ "here are at least three de1initions o1 compleA systems /F systems *ith

lare numbers o1 variables and many relationships amon themG 'F systems composed o1

numerous autonomous Husually preprorammedF actors alorithms *hich interact, producino1ten uneApected results Hi+e+, emerenceFG 0F systems involvin kno*in participants actin in

systems in *hich they have an interest in the outcome+ "he term IcompleAity can be used to

re1er to the 1irst cateory+ "he terms Isel13oranizin systems or IcompleA adaptive systems

are used 1or the second cateory+ IRe1leAive systems re1ers to the third cateory+

"o illustrate these three cateories and ho* they in1luence the creation o1 theories, threeconceptions o1 economic theory are described+

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EXPERI#ENTS IN REFLEXIVE IN4IRY

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.ssociate, 5ooz .llen ?amilton

$e revie* 1our iterations o1 9irtual Systemic 2nDuiry H9S2F, a method that embraces re1leAivity+

9S2 eAploits the 1ree conitive surplus available throuh the *eb and other*ise starts *ith no

rules, Bust cybernetic principles openness, variety, interaction, and an orientation to the commonood+ &onventional methods, *hile better in many *ays, actually don@t score hihly aainst

these criteria+ $e revie* and contrast 1our 9S2 proBects in *hich procedures *ere varied and

products raned 1rom a published book to a non3converent, perpetual conversation+ $e discuss

1ailures and successes and suest directions 1or improvement+ $e conclude by eAplorin in*hat *ays this method is re1leAive and the advantaes this can brin to social inDuiry and

speci1ically to public intellience, even as it breaks all the rules+

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ADVANCES IN LIVING SYSTE#S SCIENCE

5a.e" R S/.."

&hair o1 the !ivin Systems .nalysis Special 2nteration #roup"he 2nternational Society 1or the Systems Sciences

BrsimmsKBuno+com

"he concept o1 a livin systems science eDuivalent to the natural sciences, such as physics and

chemistry, has been evolvin since the end o1 $orld $ar 22+ James Miller@s book"iin# Systems

H/8:7F identi1ies the subBects o1 the science, classi1ies the subBects and identi1ies relationships+"he book &rinciples of a 9uantitatie "iin# Systems ScienceH/888F identi1ies the universal

phenomena o1 li1e, the relations amon these phenomena, and measures o1 these phenomena+

"he livin systems are at the cell, oran, and oranism levels+ .dvances are bein made at the

roup level+ "hese advances are described in the presentation+

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A NE$ ARCHI#EDEAN POINT FOR INTELLIGENCE AND FOREIGN POLICY:

REFLEXIVITY6 CO#PLEXITY AND CLTRE

Lo7ell F C(*/"!+ 5* P(D

&ultural Strateies 2nstituteSeneca, M%

"he paper eAposes the narro* epistemoloical 1oundations o1 current embodiments in

2ntellience and 4orein Policy that results in 2ntellience 4ailure, 5lo*back and Policy

Missteps+ "hrouh the lens o1 the seven LsinsL o1 omission or commission underlyin current

institutionalized concepts o1 artcra1t o1 intellience and 1ormationeAecution o1 1orein policy,the paper *ill propose ?O$ re1leAivity, compleAity and culture can overcome our epistemic

malaise+

"he structure o1 the arument is based on case studies o1 ME"?O%S 1or the use o1 mindresultin in a proposed "OO!


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REPRESENTATIONS VS CO#PRESSIONS

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Simple models can be many a manaerQs undoin+ Manaers are trained to act on simplicity, but

that simplicity is opposite to the compleAity o1 the *orld in *hich such businessesoperate+ E11iciency it seems can be the enemy o1 resilience+ .nd, in our ever chanin compleA

*orld resilience is o1ten needed to deal *ith chane+ "*o types o1 eAplanatory models are o1ten

evoked as the conteAt underlyin chane+ Models based on labels and cateories *e shall re1er to

as Lrepresentations+L More compleA models involvin stories, multiple alorithms, rules o1thumb, Duestions, ambiuity *e shall re1er to as Lcompressions+L 5oth compressions and

representations are reductions+ 5ut representations are 1ar more reductive than compressions+Representations can be treated as a set o1 de1ined meanins 3 coherence *ith reard to a

representation is the deree o1 1idelity bet*een the item in Duestion and the de1inition o1 the

representation, o1 the label+ 5y contrast, compressions contain enouh derees o1 1reedom andambiuity to allo* us to make internal predictions so that *e may determine our potential

actions in the possibility space+ &ompressions are eAplanatory via mechanism+ Representations

are eAplanatory via cateory+ &ateory based eAplanations may be e11icient but they are not

resilient+ Resilience reDuires narratives not labels, mechanisms not cateories, a 1ocus oneAperience and not on labels and a need to be a*are o1 *hen representations *ork and *hen they

1ail+ Retrospective eAplanation based on representation o1ten 1ails *hen mistakenly used as a

predictive model devoid o1 conteAt and compression+ "his paper hihlihts the risk *hich occurs*hen *e con1use the evocation o1 a representation Hcateory inclusionF as the creation o1 a

conteAt o1 compression Hdescription o1 mechanismF+ 2n the drive 1or e11iciency such substitutions

are all too o1ten proclaimed 3 at our peril+

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PECLIARITIES OF PBLIC AND ENTREPRENERIAL ATTITDES IN POST

SOVIET GEORGIA: AN EXA#PLE OF REFLEXIVE SYSTE# THIN)ING

Ia Na!",l/"(,/l/

"bilisi State University"bilisi, #eoria

"he paper relies on the results o1 a survey o1 #eorians@ kno*lede and attitudes to*ard theEuropean Union carried out by the S*edish 2nternational %evelopment &ooperation .ency

HS2%.F and on the results o1 a survey about public attitudes in #eoria carried out 1or the

;ational %emocratic 2nstitute 1or 2nternational .11airs H;%2F by the &aucasus Research Resource

&enters H&RR&F+ "he paper uses the results o1 research on attitudes to*ard entrepreneurshipconducted by the author in "bilisi, H#eoriaF+ "he present paper also revie*s the results o1

research investiatin the deree to *hich entrepreneurial attitudes and abilities relate to anindividuals@ intentions to*ards entrepreneurial behavior+ "he attitudes o1 #eorians are unusual

in that they have a much stroner orientation to*ard entrepreneurial activity than do people in

the U+S+ or other European countries+ "he article *ill consider ho* to eAplain this 1indin 1romthe perspective o1 both eDuilibrium theory in economics and re1leAivity theory+

#eorians consider themselves to be a part o1 the system called IEurope+ #eorians remain

eAtremely *ell disposed to*ard the EU+ "hey are enthusiastic Europhiles but are not naivelyoptimistic that Boinin Europe *ould be the ans*er to all their problems+ %i11erent vie*s about

the operation o1 #eorian democracy remain amon #eorians but most people ackno*lede

that #eorian democracy needs improvement+ #eorians display an increasinly active vie* o1citizenship, *ith lare numbers believin it is important to criticize overnment, protest and

volunteer+ #eorians@ positive attitudes to*ard the 1easibility o1 becomin sel13employed sho*

sel13con1idence and eApectations o1 success 1or market oriented economic re1orms and social andpolitical stability in #eoria+

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CROSS-CLTRAL SYNERGY AS A #ANAGE#ENT INNOVATION FOR

INCREASING #LTINATIONAL CO#PANIES% CO#PETITIVENESS

Na!al/a G"e,a

State University C ?iher School o1 Economics

Mosco*, Russia

"his paper eAamines the hypothesis that synery o1 cross3cultural di11erences is the key 1actor 1orincreasin multinational companies@ competitiveness in the process o1 lobalization+ "he author

also considers synery o1 cross3cultural di11erences as a manaement innovation applied to

multi3nationals *orkin in Russia+ "he author proposes a ne* approach 1or dealin *ith cross3

cultural di11erences and 1or takin advantae o1 the cultural diversity that is currently commonand presents her o*n vision and manaerial recommendations 1or reachin synery on 1our main

4rench C Russian dichotomies individualism C collectivismG universalism C particularismG

endoenous C eAoenous motivation and attitudes to*ards time+

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APPLYING A #ETHOD OF EXTENDED SYSTE#S ANALYSIS TO

CONTRY DEVELOP#ENT

Ta!/aa #e&,e&e,a

Siberian State University o1 "ransport

;ovosibirsk, Russia

"he compleAity o1 the problems 1aced by scientists in the '/st century makes it necessary torethink many current social theories and research approaches so that they *ill be able to support

1ull development o1 the net*orked, kno*lede3based economy and society+ "here are many

intellectual attempts to revamp current theorizin and to improve understandin amon social

scientists+ One o1 these, *hich provides a 1undamentally ne*, compleA vision o1 society throuhthe prism o1 a ne* understandin o1 li1e, is 4ritBo1 &apra@s approach, interatin bioloical,

conitive and social dimensions on the basis o1 a theory o1 compleAity+

"his paper compares &apra@s interated conception 1or understandin social systems and 1ourmethods 1or describin systems+ "he paper also applies this multi3perspective approach to

analyzin the chanes in social and labor relations in Russia durin the past '( years o1re1ormin the Russian economy+

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GRADATE PROGRA#S FOR DEVELOPING CONTRIES

S!a*! .3leb+


"he #eore $ashinton University

$ashinton, %&

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REFLEXIVITY6 PROCESS AND EIGENFOR#

Lo/" H )aff.a

%epartment o1 Mathematics

University o1 2llinois in &hicao

&hicao, 2!

Eien1orm in the sense o1 ?einz von 4oerster is o1ten depicted as the result o1 an in1initerecursion+ 2n this vie* obBects are tokens 1or eienbehaviours in the lon term action o1 a

recursion, and sel13re1erence occurs only in the limit o1 such processes+ Sel13re1erence is the

hallmark o1 a re1leAive domain or a sel13observin system+ On the other hand re1leAive domains

occur in the eAchane o1 theories and processes in everyday li1e and lanuae, 1ar 1rom suchlimitin processes+ 2t is the purpose o1 this talk to ive a model 1or the notion o1 a re1leAive

domain, and to sho* that sel13re1erence and eien1orms arise naturally in the *ay processes

interact 1initely+ Our modelin applies directly to sel13observin systems and this point o1 vie*

leads to an investiation o1 re1leAivity in science, social science and linuistics as *ell ascybernetics+

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REFLECTING BET$EEN NDERSTANDING AND ACTING

Ral3( Gla,/lle

President o1 the .merican Society 1or &ybernetics

$e live by a model that tells us *e should understand in order to act+ et babies do the opposite

they act in order to understand+ "his is the key lesson that Piaet tauht us+ 2n a more recentcybernetic interpretation, actin and understandin 1orm a mutually dependant circularity+ $hat

is important is *hat happens bet*een them Htheir interactionF *ithin the mind o1 the aent *ho

acts and understands+ 2 arue this is po*ered by re1lection, i+e+, deep, contemplative thinkin+ 2

*ill eAplore ho* this relates to 5ehaviours in my o*n "heory o1 ObBectsG von 4oersterQsrecursive eien 1ormsG and SchoumlautnQs re1lection in action+ 4inally, 2 *ill brin these ideas

to*ards UmplebyQs account o1 SorosQ re1leAive economics+

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CYBERNETICS OF DISCORSE

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#reory 5ateson Pro1essor.nnenber School o1 &ommunication

University o1 Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, P.

4or me, lanuae use Hsocial communicationF is the master trope o1 ecoloy multiple species o1

metaphors brouht selectively in interaction *ith one another by communities o1 human actors,*ho coordinate their individual eAperiences *hile co3constructin and alterin social and

material *orlds+ 5ateson had located mind in the circular 1lo* o1 di11erences, involvin human

brains+ 2 am less concerned *ith mind as a cateory but *ith ho* a variety o1 social phenomena,

especially discourses, maintain themselves in sel13constitutin linuistically mediated re1leAiveloops+ &ybernetics is a discursive phenomenon and the arti1acts that cyberneticians collectively

construct, 2 *ould arue, need to be conceptualized not in observational but in re1leAive terms+

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SELF-REFLEXIVE SYSTE#S

Vla&/./* Lefeb,*e

&onitive Sciences Pro1essorUniversity o1 &ali1ornia in 2rvine

2rvine, &.

2 introduced the concept o1 a sel13re1leAive system in /8>)+ "he essence o1 its de1inition is that

such a system contains the element *hich re1lects the *hole system and, at the same time, is

in1luencin it as an entity+ .t that time, this concept *as not cybernetic, it *as rather anti3cybernetic, because it reDuired the system to have a mental domain *ith the imae o1 the sel1+

2ntroducin the concept o1 sel13re1leAive system into scienti1ic usae reDuested reconsiderin the

principles o1 constructin theories in the social sciences+ 2n this 1ield, unlike in the natural

sciences, a theory about an obBect may in1luence this obBect, *hich destroys the truth o1 thetheory+ 5esides, the theory may be constructed by the obBect and imposed on the investiator+ 2

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REFLEXIVITY6 SELF-9LESS-REFLEXIVITY6 AND SOCIAL RESEARCH

F*e& S!e/e*%epartment o1 &ommunication

University o1 Southern 4lorida

"ampa, 4!

Re1leAivity, *ith its etymoloical roots in the L1lectoL or shepherdQs sta11, and as a bendin3back

on ourselves inherent in all o1 our kno*in processes, has presented intriuin dilemmas 1orresearchers+ On the one hand, *e have those *ho see the very idea o1 re1leAivity as a threat to a

desired obBectivity, to keep the observer out o1 the story o1 kno*inG on the other, *e have those

*ho embrace it as a *ay o1 allo*in the story to 1ocus on themselves, losin siht o1 the

circularity at the heart o1 re1leAivity+ 5oth approaches are rooted in a non3cyberneticepistemoloy+ 2 propose to eAplore a middle round, rooted in eAtendin #reory 5atesonQs ideas

o1 recursion, conteAt, and cybernetic eAplanation to allo* 1or an ecoloical re1leAivity+ "o do this2 *ould like to eAplore *hat, in this conteAt, a sel13HlessF re1leAivity miht mean in social

research+ Such an idea *ill encourae us to, paradoAically, BuAtapose the responsibility .;%

humility o1 the researcher, and to celebrate the LmuddleL Haain, 1rom 5atesonF that this o1tenentails+ 2llustrations 1rom diverse research settins *ill be o11ered+

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OBSTACLES TO REFLEXIVITY THEORY IN ECONO#ICS

S!a*! A .3leb+


"he #eore $ashinton University$ashinton, %&

"he dominant model in economics is eDuilibrium theory, *hich is based on an analoy to

thermodynamics+ "he elements o1 the system are assumed to be rational pro1it3maAimizers *ith

complete in1ormation+ $hen the system is disturbed, economists assume that it *ill Duickly

return to eDuilibrium+ .s an alternative #eore Soros has proposed re1leAivity theory, *hichassumes that the elements o1 economic systems are thinkin participants+ "hey observe, act,

observe, act, and they have biases+ "his vie* is readily accepted by practicin manaers but not

by economists+ "here seem to be t*o main reasons *hy economists reBect re1leAivity theory+

4irst, they are 1amiliar *ith their current paradim and resist chane, as described by "homas


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E#OTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDCATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Del/a E #a!e/a"

4ulbriht Scholar 1rom Romania

"he #eore $ashinton University$ashinton, %&

"his study souht to add to the ro*in body o1 kno*lede about educational leadership,

emotional intellience, and school per1ormance+ Speci1ically, it souht to eAplore the

relationships bet*een HaF emotional intellience and 1our valid per1ormance indicators theannual percentae o1 students promoted, the annual percentae o1 student 1inal eAam passae, the

annual percentae o1 student attendance, the schools@ annual entrepreneurship percentae, and

HbF the relationships bet*een emotional intellience and ender+ "he results o1 this study sho*ed

a statistically sini1icant relationship bet*een emotional intellience and the annual percentae

o1 students promoted, and bet*een emotional intellience and the annual percentae o1 student1inal eAam passae+ "he study sho*ed almost no relationship bet*een emotional intellience and

the annual percentae o1 student attendance, bet*een emotional intellience and the schools@annual entrepreneurship percentae, at alpha eDuals, ()+ 4inally the results indicated a

statistically sini1icant relationship bet*een emotional intellience and 1emale ender+

Recommendations 1or 1uture research are provided+

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