Resonance within the Client-to-Client System:  Criticality, Cascades, and Tipping Points

Gill, T. Grandon

doi:10.28945/450

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“…The remainder results from face-to-face informing within the client community (Gill, 2008b). If we view informing external clients as being an essential part of the research process, it then follows that identifying those individuals who can play particularly prominent roles in face-to-face diffusion activities within the client community would be highly beneficial.…”

Section: Roles For Professional Doctoratesmentioning

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The Business Professional Doctorate as an Informing Channel: A Survey and Analysis

Gill

Hoppe

2009

IJDS

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Although growing in popularity in other countries, the business professional doctorate has yet to gain traction in the U.S. Such programs, intended to offer advanced disciplinary and research training to individuals who later plan to apply that training to employment in industry, are frequently seen to be inferior to their academically-focused Ph.D. program counterparts. Furthermore, if the sole purpose of a doctorate is to develop individuals focused on producing scholarly research articles, that assessment may well be correct. We argue, however, that such a narrowly focused view of the purpose of doctoral programs is self-defeating; by exclusively focusing on scholarly research and writings, we virtually guarantee that our research will never make it into practice. The paper begins by identifying a variety of types of doctoral programs that exist globally and placing these in a conceptual framework. We then present a detailed case study of the information systems (IS) doctoral programs offered in Osnabrueck, Germany-where as many as 90% of candidates choose careers in industry in preference to academia. Finally, we proposesupported using both conceptual arguments drawn from the study of complex informing and observed examples-that the greatest benefit of business professional doctorates may be the creation of enduring informing channels between practice and industry. Presented in this light, the business professional doctorate should be viewed as an essential part of the broader research ecology, rather than as a weak substitute for the disciplinary Ph.D.

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The Business Professional Doctorate as an Informing Channel: A Survey and Analysis

Gill

Hoppe

2009

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“…Key to Gill's model is that we must appeal to the whole person, cognitive, emotional and visceral, to whom the message is being aimed to achieve resonance. Gill states that “ If a message does not quickly resonate with an individual recipient, the recipient is unlikely to put forth the effort required to become a subsequent sender .” arguing toward the higher levels of resonance as action (Gill, 2008).…”

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Resonance and the experience of relevance

Ruthven

2020

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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In this article, I propose the concept of resonance as a useful one for describing what it means to experience relevance. Based on an extensive interdisciplinary review, I provide a novel framework that presents resonance as a spectrum of experience with a multitude of outcomes ranging from a sense of harmony and coherence to life transformation. I argue that resonance has different properties to the more traditional interpretation of relevance and provides a better system of explanation of what it means to experience relevance. I show how traditional approaches to relevance and resonance work in a complementary fashion and outline how resonance may present distinct new lines of research into relevance theory.

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“…The cumulative graph of the transition frequently follows the familiar S-curve of the diffusion of innovations (Rogers, 2003). In many of the models for this type of process, a diversity of agent behaviors exist (Gill, 2008). An innovator agent, for example, is presumed to be far less attached to any given peak than the typical agent.…”

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Fitness, Extrinsic Complexity and Informing Science

Gill¹,

Mullarkey²

2017

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Aim/PurposeWe establish a conceptually rigorous definition for the widely used but loosely defined term "fitness". We then tie this definition to complexity, highlighting a number of important implications for the informing science transdiscipline. BackgroundAs informing science increasingly incorporates concepts of fitness and complexity in its research stream, rigorous discussion and definition of both terms is essential to effective communication. MethodologyOur analysis consists principally of a synthesis of past work in the informing science field that incorporates concepts from evolutionary biology, economics and management. ContributionWe provide a rigorous approach to defining fitness and introduce the construct "extrinsic complexity", as a measure of the amount of information required to predict fitness, to more fully differentiate this form of complexity from other complexity constructs. We draw a number of conclusions regarding how behaviors under low and high extrinsic complexity will differ. Findings High extrinsic complexity environments are likely to produce behaviors that include resistance to change, imitation, turbulence and inequality. Recommendations for PractitionersAs extrinsic complexity grows, effective search for problem solutions will increasingly dominate employing recommended solutions of "best practices". Recommendation for ResearchersAs extrinsic complexity grows, research tools that rely on decomposing individual effects and hypothesis testing become increasingly unreliable. Impact on Society We raise concerns about society's continuing investment in academic research that discounts the extrinsic complexity of the domains under study. Future ResearchWe highlight a need for research to operationalize the concepts of fitness and complexity in practice.

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Resonance within the Client-to-Client System: Criticality, Cascades, and Tipping Points

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

The Business Professional Doctorate as an Informing Channel: A Survey and Analysis

The Business Professional Doctorate as an Informing Channel: A Survey and Analysis

Resonance and the experience of relevance

Fitness, Extrinsic Complexity and Informing Science

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