Dynamic Essential Modelling of Organisation (DEMO) is a theory about the 'construction' and the 'operation' of organisations, that is rooted in the Communicative Action Paradigm regarding human communication and action.
We define a CHKMS as a purposeful, ethical and adaptable system that creates exoteric knowledge (relevant for solving social and managerial problems) through communicative action, providing a link between knowledge and action in an organization or community of practice.
Start with "The Theory of Communicative Action".
I was going to say, 'We're going to model Habermasian communicative action,' but that's excessively pretentious".
The storyteller relies on the listener's cultural understanding about the limits of argument, or communicative action.
(One tries, and fails, to imagine the current President alluding to the author of "Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action").
The theoretical framework for the program integrates aspects of human capability, communicative action, social ecology and social cognition.
This paper explores the landscape of nursing leadership from a critical theory perspective, particularly Habermas's theory of communicative action.
There are valid debates, partly raised by the successes of the Occupy movement, over how much emphasis to place on disruptive action, and how much on communicative action.
The Language Action Perspective (LAP), in particular Habermas' theory of Communicative Action offers a sound and rigid foundation for such a framework.
The ability of the two-step participatory action research model to achieve these objectives is then evaluated based on norms of Communicative Action and criteria of participatory planning.
