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Tarski’s Theory of the Formal Correctness of Definitions
In his 1933 monograph on the concept of truth, Alfred Tarski claimed that his definition of truth satisfied “the usual conditions of methodological...
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Artifacts and intervention: a persistence theory of artifact functions
This paper presents a novel theory of artifact functions, drawing from persistence-based accounts of social functions, according to which the...
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Climate Change and Legal Theory
Legal theory has always considered the historical relationship between climate and law under four perspectives: the influence of climate on political...
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Money in Critical Theory: Pollock, Adorno, Habermas
Money does not play a central role in the major writings of Frankfurt School thinkers, with the exception of Theodor W. Adorno, and Friedrich Pollock...
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Climate Change and Legal Theory
Legal theory has always considered the historical relationship between climate and law under four perspectives: the influence of climate on political...
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New Materialism in Business Ethics
This chapter deals with the question of how a legally thought business ethics can be critical of its own legal, systemic thought. This chapter...
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Ota Weinberger’s conception of democracy: reconstructing an unexplored political theory
Ota Weinberger was a Czech-Austrian jurist, whose core academic work on issues of democracy was mostly published in the 1990s. In his writings, he...
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The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective
Gender role congruity theory emphasizes the ubiquity of male-typed leadership schemas as barriers to female leaders’ career development (i.e.,...
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From Pessimism of Theory to Radical Utopianism: Gramsci, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies
This chapter provides a comparative analysis of pessimism in the political thought of the Marxist Antonio Gramsci, of the Critical Theory of Max...
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The Effects of Top Management Team National Diversity and Institutional Uncertainty on Subsidiary CSR Focus
This research investigates how top management team national diversity (TMTND) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) institutional uncertainty...
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Accepting Organizational Theories
In this paper we aim to contribute to the recent debate on non-empirical theory confirmation by analyzing why scientists accept and trust their...
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Fuller’s Clock: A Case for Legal Non-Positivism in Artefactual Theory of Law1
This article covers the traditional problems of the philosophy of law: the controversies between realism and normativism, on the one hand, and...
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Why does Faithful Epistemic Representation Matter for Management Practices? The Case of the Natural Environment in Management Theory
Management theory is a diverse field where multiple theoretical perspectives coexist and coevolve, leading to conceptual pluralism. While conceptual...
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Theory Building in Strategic Management
The purpose of this work is to articulate the terrain of foundational issues in strategic management research and suggest a framework for...
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Socially Responsible Investment: New Challenges or Same Old Mindset?
Following the same approach applied to CSR to ensure consistency, this chapter delivers a systematic analysis of socially responsible investment...
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The creation of institutional reality, special theory of relativity, and mere Cambridge change
Saying so can make it so, J. L. Austin taught us long ago. Famously, John Searle has developed this Austinian insight in an account of the...
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Whither Postmodernism? Whether It’s New Liberalism?
The next chapter argues for a reassessment of postmodernism, both as a theory and as a mode of philosophy. Particularly in light of thinkers like...
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Incarceration, Health Harm, and Institutional Epistemic Injustice
We argue that people who are incarcerated and prison health workers are impacted by embodied institutional epistemic injustice. This particular...
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Rethinking Effective Remedies to the Climate Crisis: a Vulnerability Theory Approach
Although the harmful effects of climate change on human rights are well-recognized, the legal response to the climate crisis has been inadequate....
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Elements, Renaissance Theory of Natural
For centuries, the conception of natural elements in the Western world was dominated by Aristotle’s four elements-theory. In addition of being part...