Chaos

The limitations imposed upon the usual elastic and viscoelastic constants are reinvestigated. Defining viscoelastic properties of a higher order, it is found that methods which have been used for the first-order quantities are insufficient to determine relationships between the higher-order constants. Necessary but non-sufficient criteria are arrived at by means of arguments involving energies in dissipative processes.

@article{doi10112111907305,
    author = "Knopoff, L.",
    title = "On the Dissipative Viscoelastic Constants of Higher Order",
    year = "1954",
    journal = "The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America",
    abstract = "The limitations imposed upon the usual elastic and viscoelastic constants are reinvestigated. Defining viscoelastic properties of a higher order, it is found that methods which have been used for the first-order quantities are insufficient to determine relationships between the higher-order constants. Necessary but non-sufficient criteria are arrived at by means of arguments involving energies in dissipative processes.",
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@misc{degrazia1981chaos1,
    author = "De Grazia, A",
    title = "Chaos and Creation",
    year = "1981",
    howpublished = "An Introduction to Quantavolution in Human Natural History [1st ed.]: Princeton, Metron, 335 p",
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@misc{prigogine1984order2,
    author = "Prigogine, I. and Stengers, I",
    title = "Order Out Of Chaos",
    year = "1984",
    howpublished = "Man's New Dialogue with Nature: New York, Bantam Books",
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@article{doi10230744798209,
    author = "Earley, Joseph E.",
    title = "Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue With Nature",
    year = "1985",
    journal = "Process Studies",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.2307/44798209",
    doi = "10.2307/44798209",
    openalex = "W4312576455"
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@article{cronbach1988playing,
    author = "Cronbach, Lee J. and Gleick, James",
    title = "Playing with Chaos",
    year = "1988",
    journal = "Educational Researcher",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.2307/1175952",
    doi = "10.2307/1175952",
    number = "6",
    pages = "46",
    volume = "17"
}

Based on the experiences of leading Japanese companies, this article attempts to formulate a conceptual framework of a self-renewal process of a firm. The author conceptualizes the process as the continuous creation and dissolution of organizational order, or nonequilibrium self-organizing process. Although the process is continuous, four phases can be identified: creation of chaos; amplification of fluctuation; dynamic cooperation; and restructuring of organizational knowledge. The essence of the process is not the processing of syntactic information, but the organizational creation of meaningful, semantic information. The article negates the information-processing model of organization that emphasizes such concepts as fit, balance, and equilibrium. Instead, it advocates the self-organization paradigm that sheds light on functional aspects of chaos, fluctuation, and disequilibrium.

@article{doi10230741166514,
    author = "Nonaka, Ikujiro",
    title = "Creating Organizational Order Out of Chaos: Self-Renewal in Japanese Firms",
    year = "1988",
    journal = "California Management Review",
    abstract = "Based on the experiences of leading Japanese companies, this article attempts to formulate a conceptual framework of a self-renewal process of a firm. The author conceptualizes the process as the continuous creation and dissolution of organizational order, or nonequilibrium self-organizing process. Although the process is continuous, four phases can be identified: creation of chaos; amplification of fluctuation; dynamic cooperation; and restructuring of organizational knowledge. The essence of the process is not the processing of syntactic information, but the organizational creation of meaningful, semantic information. The article negates the information-processing model of organization that emphasizes such concepts as fit, balance, and equilibrium. Instead, it advocates the self-organization paradigm that sheds light on functional aspects of chaos, fluctuation, and disequilibrium.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.2307/41166514",
    doi = "10.2307/41166514",
    openalex = "W2070142031",
    references = "doi101001jama193402750020068039, doi1010160048733388900455, doi10108003637758409390197, doi1010880031911281008, doi101177027507408101500109, doi1023071058511, doi1023072064777, doi1023072392758, doi10230744798209, openalexw1543877776"
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Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Note on the Text (1994) xiii Preface (1994) xv Preface xxix Part I THE MASTERY OF GOD AND THE VULNERABILITY OF ORDER 1. The Basic Idea of Israelite Religion? 3 2. The Survival of Chaos After the Victory of God 14 3. The Futurity and Presence of the Cosmogonic Victory 26 4. Conclusion: The Vitality of Evil and the Fragility of Creation 47 Part II THE ALTERNATION OF CHAOS AND ORDERGENESIS 1:1-2:3 5. Creation Without Opposition: Psalm 104 53 6. Creation in Seven Days 66 7. Cosmos and Microcosm 78 8. Rest and Re-Creation 100 9. Conclusion: Chaos Neutralized in Cult 121 Part III CREATION AND COVENANT: THE DYNAMICS OF LORDSHIP AND SUBMISSION 10. The Two Idioms of Biblical Monotheism 131 11. The Dialectic of Covenantal Theonomy 140 12. Argument and Obedience 149 Notes 157 Scripture Index 177 Author Index 181

@article{doi105860choice262674,
    title = "Creation and the persistence of evil: the Jewish drama of divine omnipotence",
    year = "1989",
    journal = "Choice Reviews Online",
    abstract = "Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Note on the Text (1994) xiii Preface (1994) xv Preface xxix Part I THE MASTERY OF GOD AND THE VULNERABILITY OF ORDER 1. The Basic Idea of Israelite Religion? 3 2. The Survival of Chaos After the Victory of God 14 3. The Futurity and Presence of the Cosmogonic Victory 26 4. Conclusion: The Vitality of Evil and the Fragility of Creation 47 Part II THE ALTERNATION OF CHAOS AND ORDERGENESIS 1:1-2:3 5. Creation Without Opposition: Psalm 104 53 6. Creation in Seven Days 66 7. Cosmos and Microcosm 78 8. Rest and Re-Creation 100 9. Conclusion: Chaos Neutralized in Cult 121 Part III CREATION AND COVENANT: THE DYNAMICS OF LORDSHIP AND SUBMISSION 10. The Two Idioms of Biblical Monotheism 131 11. The Dialectic of Covenantal Theonomy 140 12. Argument and Obedience 149 Notes 157 Scripture Index 177 Author Index 181",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.26-2674",
    doi = "10.5860/choice.26-2674",
    openalex = "W1578774959"
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This paper proposes a paradigm for managing the dynamic aspects of organizational knowledge creating processes. Its central theme is that organizational knowledge is created through a continuous dialogue between tacit and explicit knowledge. The nature of this dialogue is examined and four patterns of interaction involving tacit and explicit knowledge are identified. It is argued that while new knowledge is developed by individuals, organizations play a critical role in articulating and amplifying that knowledge. A theoretical framework is developed which provides an analytical perspective on the constituent dimensions of knowledge creation. This framework is then applied in two operational models for facilitating the dynamic creation of appropriate organizational knowledge.

@article{doi101287orsc5114,
    author = "Nonaka, Ikujiro",
    title = "A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation",
    year = "1994",
    journal = "Organization Science",
    abstract = "This paper proposes a paradigm for managing the dynamic aspects of organizational knowledge creating processes. Its central theme is that organizational knowledge is created through a continuous dialogue between tacit and explicit knowledge. The nature of this dialogue is examined and four patterns of interaction involving tacit and explicit knowledge are identified. It is argued that while new knowledge is developed by individuals, organizations play a critical role in articulating and amplifying that knowledge. A theoretical framework is developed which provides an analytical perspective on the constituent dimensions of knowledge creation. This framework is then applied in two operational models for facilitating the dynamic creation of appropriate organizational knowledge.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.5.1.14",
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Many authors have stressed the existence of continuous processes of convergence and divergence, stability and instability, evolution and revolution in every organization. This article argues that these processes are embedded in organizational characteristics and in the way organizations are managed. Organizations are presented as nonlinear dynamic systems subject to forces of stability and forces of instability which push them toward chaos. When in a chaotic domain, organizations are likely to exhibit the qualitative properties of chaotic systems. Several of these properties—sensitivity to initial conditions, discreteness of change, attraction to specific configurations, structural invariance at different scales and irreversibility—are used to establish six propositions. First, because of the coupling of counteracting forces, organizations are potentially chaotic. Second, the path from organizational stability to chaos follows a discrete process of change. Third, when the organization is in the chaotic domain, small changes can have big consequences that cannot be predicted in the long term. Fourth, from chaos, new stabilities emerge—the strange attractors—which are assimilated to organizational configurations. Fifth, similar patterns should be found at different scales. Finally, during one single organizational life span or between two different organizations similar actions should never lead to the same result.

@article{doi101287orsc6119,
    author = "Thiétart, R. A. and Forgues, Bernard",
    title = "Chaos Theory and Organization",
    year = "1995",
    journal = "Organization Science",
    abstract = "Many authors have stressed the existence of continuous processes of convergence and divergence, stability and instability, evolution and revolution in every organization. This article argues that these processes are embedded in organizational characteristics and in the way organizations are managed. Organizations are presented as nonlinear dynamic systems subject to forces of stability and forces of instability which push them toward chaos. When in a chaotic domain, organizations are likely to exhibit the qualitative properties of chaotic systems. Several of these properties—sensitivity to initial conditions, discreteness of change, attraction to specific configurations, structural invariance at different scales and irreversibility—are used to establish six propositions. First, because of the coupling of counteracting forces, organizations are potentially chaotic. Second, the path from organizational stability to chaos follows a discrete process of change. Third, when the organization is in the chaotic domain, small changes can have big consequences that cannot be predicted in the long term. Fourth, from chaos, new stabilities emerge—the strange attractors—which are assimilated to organizational configurations. Fifth, similar patterns should be found at different scales. Finally, during one single organizational life span or between two different organizations similar actions should never lead to the same result.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.6.1.19",
    doi = "10.1287/orsc.6.1.19",
    openalex = "W1995713075",
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This article introduces the Japanese concept of to organizational theory. Ba (equivalent to place in English) is a shared space for emerging relationships. It can be a physical, virtual, or mental space. Knowledge, in contrast to information, cannot be separated from the context—it is embedded in ba. To support the process of knowledge creation, a foundation in ba is required. This article develops and explains four specific platforms and their relationships to knowledge creation. Each of the knowledge conversion modes is promoted by a specific ba. A self-transcending process of knowledge creation can be supported by providing ba on different organizational levels. This article presents case studies of three companies that employ ba on the team, division, and corporate level to enhance knowledge creation.

@article{doi10230741165942,
    author = "Nonaka, Ikujiro and Konno, Noboru",
    title = "The Concept of “Ba”: Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation",
    year = "1998",
    journal = "California Management Review",
    abstract = "This article introduces the Japanese concept of to organizational theory. Ba (equivalent to place in English) is a shared space for emerging relationships. It can be a physical, virtual, or mental space. Knowledge, in contrast to information, cannot be separated from the context—it is embedded in ba. To support the process of knowledge creation, a foundation in ba is required. This article develops and explains four specific platforms and their relationships to knowledge creation. Each of the knowledge conversion modes is promoted by a specific ba. A self-transcending process of knowledge creation can be supported by providing ba on different organizational levels. This article presents case studies of three companies that employ ba on the team, division, and corporate level to enhance knowledge creation.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.2307/41165942",
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Dynamic systems of an arbitrary real order (fractional-order systems) are considered. The concept of a fractional-order PI/sup /spl lambda//D/sup /spl mu//-controller, involving fractional-order integrator and fractional-order differentiator, is proposed. The Laplace transform formula for a new function of the Mittag-Leffler-type made it possible to obtain explicit analytical expressions for the unit-step and unit-impulse response of a linear fractional-order system with fractional-order controller for both open- and closed-loops. An example demonstrating the use of the obtained formulas and the advantages of the proposed PI/sup /spl lambda//D/sup /spl mu//-controllers is given.

@article{doi1011099739144,
    author = "Podlubný, Igor",
    title = "Fractional-order systems and PI/sup /spl lambda//D/sup /spl mu//-controllers",
    year = "1999",
    journal = "IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control",
    abstract = "Dynamic systems of an arbitrary real order (fractional-order systems) are considered. The concept of a fractional-order PI/sup /spl lambda//D/sup /spl mu//-controller, involving fractional-order integrator and fractional-order differentiator, is proposed. The Laplace transform formula for a new function of the Mittag-Leffler-type made it possible to obtain explicit analytical expressions for the unit-step and unit-impulse response of a linear fractional-order system with fractional-order controller for both open- and closed-loops. An example demonstrating the use of the obtained formulas and the advantages of the proposed PI/sup /spl lambda//D/sup /spl mu//-controllers is given.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/9.739144",
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    references = "doi101111j1365246x1967tb02303x"
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A new model for managing distributed innovation, the community of creation is a governance mechanism for managing innovation that lies between the hierarchybased (closed) mechanism and the market-based (open) mechanism for innovation management. The community-centric model shifts the locus of innovation beyond the boundaries of the firm, to a community of individuals and firms that collaborate to create joint intellectual property. A community of creation requires an identified sponsor, a set of ground rules for participation, and a system for managing intellectual property rights. The community of creation model allows innovation to proceed in a complex environment by striking a balance between order and chaos. This article presents detailed case studies from the computer industry to highlight the differences among the different approaches to innovation management. It also discusses the opportunities and the unresolved issues of the community of creation model for practitioners as well as for academics.

@article{doi10230741166052,
    author = "Sawhney, Mohanbir and Prandelli, Emanuela",
    title = "Communities of Creation: Managing Distributed Innovation in Turbulent Markets",
    year = "2000",
    journal = "California Management Review",
    abstract = "A new model for managing distributed innovation, the community of creation is a governance mechanism for managing innovation that lies between the hierarchybased (closed) mechanism and the market-based (open) mechanism for innovation management. The community-centric model shifts the locus of innovation beyond the boundaries of the firm, to a community of individuals and firms that collaborate to create joint intellectual property. A community of creation requires an identified sponsor, a set of ground rules for participation, and a system for managing intellectual property rights. The community of creation model allows innovation to proceed in a complex environment by striking a balance between order and chaos. This article presents detailed case studies from the computer industry to highlight the differences among the different approaches to innovation management. It also discusses the opportunities and the unresolved issues of the community of creation model for practitioners as well as for academics.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.2307/41166052",
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This paper is a part of our attempt to build a new knowledge-based theory of the firm and organization to explain the dynamic process of knowledge creation and utilization. For this, we revisit the theory of knowledge creation through the SECI process and ba, and try to advance them further by incorporating the dialectic thinking. In this paper, knowledge creation is conceptualized as a dialectical process, in which various contradictions are synthesized through dynamic interactions among individuals, the organization, and the environment. With the view of a firm as a dialectic being, and strategy and organization should be re-examined as the synthesizing and self-transcending process instead of a logical analysis of structure or action. An organization is not an information-processing machine that is composed of small tasks to carry out a given task, but an organic configuration of ba. Ba, which is conceptualized as a shared context in motion, can transcend time, space, and organization boundaries to create knowledge.

@article{doi101057palgravekmrp8500001,
    author = "Nonaka, Ikujiro and Toyama, Ryoko",
    title = "The knowledge-creating theory revisited: knowledge creation as a synthesizing process",
    year = "2003",
    journal = "Knowledge Management Research \& Practice",
    abstract = "This paper is a part of our attempt to build a new knowledge-based theory of the firm and organization to explain the dynamic process of knowledge creation and utilization. For this, we revisit the theory of knowledge creation through the SECI process and ba, and try to advance them further by incorporating the dialectic thinking. In this paper, knowledge creation is conceptualized as a dialectical process, in which various contradictions are synthesized through dynamic interactions among individuals, the organization, and the environment. With the view of a firm as a dialectic being, and strategy and organization should be re-examined as the synthesizing and self-transcending process instead of a logical analysis of structure or action. An organization is not an information-processing machine that is composed of small tasks to carry out a given task, but an organic configuration of ba. Ba, which is conceptualized as a shared context in motion, can transcend time, space, and organization boundaries to create knowledge.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.kmrp.8500001",
    doi = "10.1057/palgrave.kmrp.8500001",
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Consumers today have more choices of products and services than ever before, but they seem dissatisfied. Firms invest in greater product variety but are less able to differentiate themselves. Growth and value creation have become the dominant themes for managers. In this paper, we explain this paradox. The meaning of value and the process of value creation are rapidly shifting from a product- and firm-centric view to personalized consumer experiences. Informed, networked, empowered, and active consumers are increasingly co-creating value with the firm. The interaction between the firm and the consumer is becoming the locus of value creation and value extraction. As value shifts to experiences, the market is becoming a forum for conversation and interactions between consumers, consumer communities, and firms. It is this dialogue, access, transparency, and understanding of risk-benefits that is central to the next practice in value creation.

@article{doi101002dir20015,
    author = "Prahalad, C. K. and Ramaswamy, Venkat",
    title = "Co-creation experiences: The next practice in value creation",
    year = "2004",
    journal = "Journal of Interactive Marketing",
    abstract = "Consumers today have more choices of products and services than ever before, but they seem dissatisfied. Firms invest in greater product variety but are less able to differentiate themselves. Growth and value creation have become the dominant themes for managers. In this paper, we explain this paradox. The meaning of value and the process of value creation are rapidly shifting from a product- and firm-centric view to personalized consumer experiences. Informed, networked, empowered, and active consumers are increasingly co-creating value with the firm. The interaction between the firm and the consumer is becoming the locus of value creation and value extraction. As value shifts to experiences, the market is becoming a forum for conversation and interactions between consumers, consumer communities, and firms. It is this dialogue, access, transparency, and understanding of risk-benefits that is central to the next practice in value creation.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1002/dir.20015",
    doi = "10.1002/dir.20015",
    openalex = "W2093505263"
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Organizational knowledge creation is the process of making available and amplifying knowledge created by individuals as well as crystallizing and connecting it to an organization's knowledge system. In other words, what individuals come to know in their (work-)life benefits their colleagues and, eventually, the larger organization. The theory explaining this process — the organizational knowledge creation theory — has developed rapidly in academia and been broadly diffused in management practice over the last 15 years. This article reviews the theory's central elements and identifies the evolving paths taken by academic work that uses the theory as a point of departure. The article furthermore proposes areas in which future research can advance the theory of organizational knowledge creation.

@article{doi1011770170840606066312,
    author = "Nonaka, Ikujiro and von Krogh, Georg and Voelpel, Sven C.",
    title = "Organizational Knowledge Creation Theory: Evolutionary Paths and Future Advances",
    year = "2006",
    journal = "Organization Studies",
    abstract = "Organizational knowledge creation is the process of making available and amplifying knowledge created by individuals as well as crystallizing and connecting it to an organization's knowledge system. In other words, what individuals come to know in their (work-)life benefits their colleagues and, eventually, the larger organization. The theory explaining this process — the organizational knowledge creation theory — has developed rapidly in academia and been broadly diffused in management practice over the last 15 years. This article reviews the theory's central elements and identifies the evolving paths taken by academic work that uses the theory as a point of departure. The article furthermore proposes areas in which future research can advance the theory of organizational knowledge creation.",
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Nonaka's paper [1994. A dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creation. Organ. Sci. 5(1) 14–37] contributed to the concepts of “tacit knowledge” and “knowledge conversion” in organization science. We present work that shaped the development of organizational knowledge creation theory and identify two premises upon which more than 15 years of extensive academic work has been conducted: (1) tacit and explicit knowledge can be conceptually distinguished along a continuum; (2) knowledge conversion explains, theoretically and empirically, the interaction between tacit and explicit knowledge. Recently, scholars have raised several issues regarding the understanding of tacit knowledge as well as the interaction between tacit and explicit knowledge in the theory. The purpose of this article is to introduce and comment on the debate about organizational knowledge creation theory. We aim to help scholars make sense of this debate by synthesizing six fundamental questions on organizational knowledge creation theory. Next, we seek to elaborate and advance the theory by responding to questions and incorporating new research. Finally, we discuss implications of our endeavor for organization science.

@article{doi101287orsc10800412,
    author = "Nonaka, Ikujiro and von Krogh, Georg",
    title = "Perspective—Tacit Knowledge and Knowledge Conversion: Controversy and Advancement in Organizational Knowledge Creation Theory",
    year = "2009",
    journal = "Organization Science",
    abstract = "Nonaka's paper [1994. A dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creation. Organ. Sci. 5(1) 14–37] contributed to the concepts of “tacit knowledge” and “knowledge conversion” in organization science. We present work that shaped the development of organizational knowledge creation theory and identify two premises upon which more than 15 years of extensive academic work has been conducted: (1) tacit and explicit knowledge can be conceptually distinguished along a continuum; (2) knowledge conversion explains, theoretically and empirically, the interaction between tacit and explicit knowledge. Recently, scholars have raised several issues regarding the understanding of tacit knowledge as well as the interaction between tacit and explicit knowledge in the theory. The purpose of this article is to introduce and comment on the debate about organizational knowledge creation theory. We aim to help scholars make sense of this debate by synthesizing six fundamental questions on organizational knowledge creation theory. Next, we seek to elaborate and advance the theory by responding to questions and incorporating new research. Finally, we discuss implications of our endeavor for organization science.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1080.0412",
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to summarize and classify extant research and to better understand the past, present, and future state of the theory of value co-creation. Its main objectives are: to identify the different theoretical perspectives and research streams that characterize and define the co-creation literature, and to highlight the connections between them; to look for emerging trends and gaps in the literature by comparing the most recent papers with those representing the field's core. Design/methodology/approach – The paper relies on bibliometric data: co-citation techniques were employed to select, analyze, and interpret citation patterns within the co-creation literature. Findings – The paper identified two main clusters, as well as specific research streams and common themes, representing scholarly journals’ publications on co-creation over the past years. These research streams and themes apply three different theoretical perspectives: service science, innovation and technology management, and marketing and consumer research. Data from the most recent publications has been used to verify if and how the original streams and themes are reflected in the contemporary debate. Research limitations/implications – Inevitably, the findings of the analysis have limitations related to the research design, the databases, and the applied bibliometric methods. Practical implications – From a practical perspective, the research impacts on theory building, management decision making, and teaching. Originality/value – This study depicts the remarkable development of the literature on co-creation and shows the latent structure underlying its different research streams. To the best knowledge, this study is the first to determine co-citation frequencies from both the SSCI and Scopus databases.

@article{doi101108msq0920130187,
    author = "Galvagno, Marco and Dalli, Daniele",
    title = "Theory of value co-creation: a systematic literature review",
    year = "2014",
    journal = "Managing Service Quality",
    abstract = "Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to summarize and classify extant research and to better understand the past, present, and future state of the theory of value co-creation. Its main objectives are: to identify the different theoretical perspectives and research streams that characterize and define the co-creation literature, and to highlight the connections between them; to look for emerging trends and gaps in the literature by comparing the most recent papers with those representing the field's core. Design/methodology/approach – The paper relies on bibliometric data: co-citation techniques were employed to select, analyze, and interpret citation patterns within the co-creation literature. Findings – The paper identified two main clusters, as well as specific research streams and common themes, representing scholarly journals’ publications on co-creation over the past years. These research streams and themes apply three different theoretical perspectives: service science, innovation and technology management, and marketing and consumer research. Data from the most recent publications has been used to verify if and how the original streams and themes are reflected in the contemporary debate. Research limitations/implications – Inevitably, the findings of the analysis have limitations related to the research design, the databases, and the applied bibliometric methods. Practical implications – From a practical perspective, the research impacts on theory building, management decision making, and teaching. Originality/value – This study depicts the remarkable development of the literature on co-creation and shows the latent structure underlying its different research streams. To the best knowledge, this study is the first to determine co-citation frequencies from both the SSCI and Scopus databases.",
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Recent developments in marketing and service research highlight the blurring of boundaries between firms and customers. The concept of customer engagement (CE) aggregates the multiple ways customer behaviors beyond transactions may influence the firm. However, the term is embryonic and academics and practitioners alike lack understanding on how CE contributes to value co-creation. This article marks the first attempt to conceptualize the role of customer engagement behavior (CEB) in value co-creation within a multistakeholder service system. We combine the theoretical perspectives of CE and value co-creation research to the analysis of a rich case study of a public transport service system involving consumers, communities, businesses, and governmental organizations. Our findings describe drivers for CEB, identify four types of CEB, and explore the value outcomes experienced by various stakeholders. This article proposes that CEB affects value co-creation by virtue of customers’ diverse resource contributions toward the focal firm and/other stakeholders that modify and/or augment the offering, and/or affect other stakeholders’ perceptions, preferences, expectations, or actions toward the firm or its offering. Through inducing broader resource integration, CEB makes value co-creation a system-level process. We offer nine research propositions explicating the connections CEB has to value co-creation by focal customers, the focal firm, and other stakeholders. Our research suggests that firms should focus greater attention on the resources that customers can contribute, explore the potential to engage diverse stakeholders around a common cause, and employ organically emerging systems that provide opportunities for more extensive value co-creation.

@article{doi1011771094670514529187,
    author = "Jaakkola, Elina and Alexander, Matthew",
    title = "The Role of Customer Engagement Behavior in Value Co-Creation",
    year = "2014",
    journal = "Journal of Service Research",
    abstract = "Recent developments in marketing and service research highlight the blurring of boundaries between firms and customers. The concept of customer engagement (CE) aggregates the multiple ways customer behaviors beyond transactions may influence the firm. However, the term is embryonic and academics and practitioners alike lack understanding on how CE contributes to value co-creation. This article marks the first attempt to conceptualize the role of customer engagement behavior (CEB) in value co-creation within a multistakeholder service system. We combine the theoretical perspectives of CE and value co-creation research to the analysis of a rich case study of a public transport service system involving consumers, communities, businesses, and governmental organizations. Our findings describe drivers for CEB, identify four types of CEB, and explore the value outcomes experienced by various stakeholders. This article proposes that CEB affects value co-creation by virtue of customers’ diverse resource contributions toward the focal firm and/other stakeholders that modify and/or augment the offering, and/or affect other stakeholders’ perceptions, preferences, expectations, or actions toward the firm or its offering. Through inducing broader resource integration, CEB makes value co-creation a system-level process. We offer nine research propositions explicating the connections CEB has to value co-creation by focal customers, the focal firm, and other stakeholders. Our research suggests that firms should focus greater attention on the resources that customers can contribute, explore the potential to engage diverse stakeholders around a common cause, and employ organically emerging systems that provide opportunities for more extensive value co-creation.",
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This paper is a part of our attempt to build a new knowledge-based theory of the firm and organization to explain the dynamic process of knowledge creation and utilization. For this, we revisit the theory of knowledge creation through the SECI process and ba, and try to advance them further by incorporating the dialectic thinking. In this paper, knowledge creation is conceptualized as a dialectical process, in which various contradictions are synthesized through dynamic interactions among individuals, the organization, and the environment. With the view of a firm as a dialectic being, and strategy and organization should be re-examined as the synthesizing and self-transcending process instead of a logical analysis of structure or action. An organization is not an information-processing machine that is composed of small tasks to carry out a given task, but an organic configuration of ba. Ba, which is conceptualized as a shared context in motion, can transcend time, space, and organization boundaries to create knowledge.

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    author = "Atangana, Abdon and Koca, İlknur",
    title = "Chaos in a simple nonlinear system with Atangana–Baleanu derivatives with fractional order",
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    journal = "Chaos Solitons \& Fractals",
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The legacies of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth remain influential for contemporary theologians, who have increasingly put them into conversation on debated questions over analogy and the knowledge of God. However, little explicit dialogue has occurred between their theologies of God. This book offers one of the first extended analyzes of this fundamental issue, asking how each theologian seeks to confess in fact and in thought God's qualitative distinctiveness in relation to creation. Wittman first examines how they understand the correspondence and distinction between God's being and external acts within an overarching concern to avoid idolatry. Second, he analyzes the kind of relation God bears to creation that follows from these respective understandings. Despite many common goals, Aquinas and Barth ultimately differ on the subject matter of theological reason with consequences for their ability to uphold God's distinctiveness consistently. These mutually informative issues offer some important lessons for contemporary theology.

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    abstract = "The legacies of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth remain influential for contemporary theologians, who have increasingly put them into conversation on debated questions over analogy and the knowledge of God. However, little explicit dialogue has occurred between their theologies of God. This book offers one of the first extended analyzes of this fundamental issue, asking how each theologian seeks to confess in fact and in thought God's qualitative distinctiveness in relation to creation. Wittman first examines how they understand the correspondence and distinction between God's being and external acts within an overarching concern to avoid idolatry. Second, he analyzes the kind of relation God bears to creation that follows from these respective understandings. Despite many common goals, Aquinas and Barth ultimately differ on the subject matter of theological reason with consequences for their ability to uphold God's distinctiveness consistently. These mutually informative issues offer some important lessons for contemporary theology.",
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In this paper, fractional calculus has proven to be invaluable in disease transmission dynamics and the creation of control systems, among other real-world problems. To investigate vaccine and treatment dynamics for disease control, this work focuses on Kawasaki illness and uses a unique fractional operator called the modified Atangana-Baleanu-Caputo derivative. The stability analysis, positivity, boundedness, existence, and uniqueness, are treated for the proposed model with novel fractional operators. Additionally, it investigates the effects of different parameters on the reproductive number. It verifies the existence and uniqueness of the solutions to the suggested model using Banach fixed point and the Leray-Schauder nonlinear alternative theorem. Employs Lyapunov functions to determine the model equilibria analysis global stability. The numerical simulation and results utilized the two-step Lagrange interpolation approach at various fractional order values. The results are contrasted with those obtained using the widely recognized ABC method and comparisons are also made to show the effects of the proposed method for the epidemic system. This model advances beyond existing Kawasaki disease models by incorporating fractional-order dynamics, which capture memory effects and long-range dependencies in biological systems, offering more accurate representations of disease progression. The inclusion of chaos stability control provides novel insights into managing complex, nonlinear behaviors, enhancing both theoretical understanding and potential clinical applications.

@article{doi101038s41598025099446,
    author = "Nisar, Kottakkaran Sooppy and Farman, Muhammad and Jamil, Khadija and Hincal, Evren and Sambas, Aceng",
    title = "Synchronization and dynamics of modified fractional order Kawasaki disease model with chaos stability control.",
    year = "2025",
    journal = "Scientific reports",
    abstract = "In this paper, fractional calculus has proven to be invaluable in disease transmission dynamics and the creation of control systems, among other real-world problems. To investigate vaccine and treatment dynamics for disease control, this work focuses on Kawasaki illness and uses a unique fractional operator called the modified Atangana-Baleanu-Caputo derivative. The stability analysis, positivity, boundedness, existence, and uniqueness, are treated for the proposed model with novel fractional operators. Additionally, it investigates the effects of different parameters on the reproductive number. It verifies the existence and uniqueness of the solutions to the suggested model using Banach fixed point and the Leray-Schauder nonlinear alternative theorem. Employs Lyapunov functions to determine the model equilibria analysis global stability. The numerical simulation and results utilized the two-step Lagrange interpolation approach at various fractional order values. The results are contrasted with those obtained using the widely recognized ABC method and comparisons are also made to show the effects of the proposed method for the epidemic system. This model advances beyond existing Kawasaki disease models by incorporating fractional-order dynamics, which capture memory effects and long-range dependencies in biological systems, offering more accurate representations of disease progression. The inclusion of chaos stability control provides novel insights into managing complex, nonlinear behaviors, enhancing both theoretical understanding and potential clinical applications.",
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Electronic health records (EHRs) contain rich clinical information; however, they pose challenges for representation learning due to long free-text notes, domain shift, irregular structure, incomplete, and sparse fields. To address these challenges, we propose a lightweight, encoder-agnostic framework that segments each record into clinically meaningful sections, encodes them with a shared foundation-model encoder, stabilizes features via upper-layer mixing, and aggregates sections with a task-specific attention head cast as a permutation-invariant set function. This section-aware design improves truncation from token limits without specialized long-text engineering and focuses the model on task-relevant evidence. We demonstrate consistent improvements across seven baseline encoders and three downstream applications, i.e., disease prediction, clustering, and representational digital-twin (RDT) retrieval. For prediction on large corpora, section-aware aggregation improves accuracy and F1 and shifts per-disease ROC curves toward higher AUC. Clustering quality increases across ARI, homogeneity, completeness, and V-measure, indicating more coherent patient strata. In RDT retrieval, neighborhoods become more label-consistent (higher homogeneity and Concordance) while maintaining high nearest-neighbor similarity. Ablations show that mixing upper transformer layers combined with task-specific section attention improves performance and reduces cross-seed variance with a modest calibration trade-off. Overall, our framework produces portable, interpretable patient embeddings that may help in various downstream analytics and decision support in real-world clinical settings.

@article{doi101007s1375502600452z,
    author = "Ahmad, Ibtihaj and Qu, Jing and Zhang, Qi and Zhou, Xiaoyan and Qingyin, Chu and WenHao, Ran and Xue, Fuzhong",
    title = "From EHR chaos to clinical clarity: enhancing foundational encoders with task-specific attention for domain-oriented representation learning in downstream clinical applications.",
    year = "2026",
    journal = "Health information science and systems",
    abstract = "Electronic health records (EHRs) contain rich clinical information; however, they pose challenges for representation learning due to long free-text notes, domain shift, irregular structure, incomplete, and sparse fields. To address these challenges, we propose a lightweight, encoder-agnostic framework that segments each record into clinically meaningful sections, encodes them with a shared foundation-model encoder, stabilizes features via upper-layer mixing, and aggregates sections with a task-specific attention head cast as a permutation-invariant set function. This section-aware design improves truncation from token limits without specialized long-text engineering and focuses the model on task-relevant evidence. We demonstrate consistent improvements across seven baseline encoders and three downstream applications, i.e., disease prediction, clustering, and representational digital-twin (RDT) retrieval. For prediction on large corpora, section-aware aggregation improves accuracy and F1 and shifts per-disease ROC curves toward higher AUC. Clustering quality increases across ARI, homogeneity, completeness, and V-measure, indicating more coherent patient strata. In RDT retrieval, neighborhoods become more label-consistent (higher homogeneity and Concordance) while maintaining high nearest-neighbor similarity. Ablations show that mixing upper transformer layers combined with task-specific section attention improves performance and reduces cross-seed variance with a modest calibration trade-off. Overall, our framework produces portable, interpretable patient embeddings that may help in various downstream analytics and decision support in real-world clinical settings.",
    url = "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13109530/",
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Alternative splicing (AS) is a key evolutionary innovation that adds a regulatory layer to gene expression. Being predominantly co-transcriptional, AS is influenced by chromatin state, enabling appropriate and repeatable gene expression patterns under stress or adaptive conditions. Chromatin state may influence early co-transcriptional steps of AS, potentially modulating gene expression patterns during environmental or adaptive responses. Recent evidence shows that AS not only modulates gene expression but can also increase protein diversity under specific conditions. To fully understand its roles in regulation, diversification, and evolution, research must move beyond condition-specific studies to population-level analyses. Comparing relict (survivors from glacial refugia) and global arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) populations for transcript isoform and protein diversity could reveal how AS contributes to stress tolerance and adaptation.

@article{doi101016jtplants202604001,
    author = "Jabre, Ibtissam and Khokhar, Waqas and Reddy, Anireddy S N and Wilson, Cornelia and Syed, Naeem H",
    title = "Alternative splicing in plants: emerging order from chaos.",
    year = "2026",
    journal = "Trends in plant science",
    abstract = "Alternative splicing (AS) is a key evolutionary innovation that adds a regulatory layer to gene expression. Being predominantly co-transcriptional, AS is influenced by chromatin state, enabling appropriate and repeatable gene expression patterns under stress or adaptive conditions. Chromatin state may influence early co-transcriptional steps of AS, potentially modulating gene expression patterns during environmental or adaptive responses. Recent evidence shows that AS not only modulates gene expression but can also increase protein diversity under specific conditions. To fully understand its roles in regulation, diversification, and evolution, research must move beyond condition-specific studies to population-level analyses. Comparing relict (survivors from glacial refugia) and global arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) populations for transcript isoform and protein diversity could reveal how AS contributes to stress tolerance and adaptation.",
    url = "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42031599/",
    doi = "10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.001",
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