These findings suggest that strongly disconfirming feedback as such may not necessarily lead to a contestation of strategic premises; an update of strategic premises seems to depend on how path-dependent organizations process this feedback.
Every act of Mobutu was trumpeted as being undertaken in the cause of the restoration of the African past, of African condemned values, a contestation of the European negation of an African authentic being and the dignity of the black race.
Even when negative feedback reached the organizations, it did not necessarily result in a contestation of their strategic premises despite the intensity of the industry's crisis.
Women who choose vaginal breech could be viewed as being a challenge to, and a contestation of, the power and authority of obstetric norms [ 34, 37].
Conversely, where trust between management and employees is low, as a result of contestation of power in poorly managed ways, worker uptake of safety measures may be undermined by distrust of management.
Rather, this analysis points to the re-emergence of metabolism as a zone of contestation over who should eat what and where responsibility lies for stewardship of the food environment.
Knowledge which may seem uncontroversial in one sphere of society enters into a situation of contestation.
Only bodies that tie representatives into a structure of political accountability – of contestation and public deliberation – can claim to have institutionalised political equality and protected individuals' dignity.
This study is an attempt to explore a domain of contestation and cleavages in its encounter with the gradually declining water regime of the plains of today's Bangladesh.
This was not only important for them but also deeply stimulating for us as ethnographers of science, as we formed part of this work of contestation and renegotiation.
India's secular democratic state is a site of contestation as it is accused by rightwing Hindu nationalists of pandering to the minorities while the progressives rightly lament its frequent failures to combat anti-minority extremism.
