Strategy tools-in-use: A framework for understanding “technologies of rationality” in practice

In response to critiques of strategy tools as unhelpful or potentially dangerous for organizations, we suggest casting a sociological eye on how tools are actually mobilized by strategy makers. In conceptualizing strategy tools as tools-in-use, we offer a framework for examining the ways that the affordances of strategy tools and the agency of strategy makers interact to shape how and when tools are selected and applied. Further, rather than evaluating the ‘correct’ or ‘incorrect’ use of tools, we highlight the variety of outcomes that result, not just for organizations but also for the tools and the individuals who use them. We illustrate this framework with a vignette and propose an agenda and methodological approaches for further scholarship on the use of strategy tools

Aspects du système de parenté inca

Through the analysis of the Inca kinship terminology found in various historical sources, the author attempts to construct a theory of the system which accommodates all the data, whatever their apparent contradictions or inconsistencies might be. It is a bifurcated merging system displaying an obvious Omaha character (through extension of some of the kinship terms : MB=MBs), with some evidence, as well of asymetrical matrilateral cross-cousin marriage (MB, MBs = WF, WB, BWB, sWF, sWFF, ssWF). However, some of the terminology is clearly Crow in character, and this fact suggests the existence of the quite contrary Crow-type principle of reckoning as opposed to the Omaha-type principle (matrilineal us patrilineal). The author's hypothesis is that the two principles might be employed simultaneously in one and the same system, but in totally separate domains, in accordance with a principle of parallel descent, in the agnatic line for men and in the uterine line for women. Indeed, some terminological data (e.g a man uses the term ususi, daughter, for his dddd) constrain the author to posit three-generation cycles, which result from matrilateral cross-cousin marriage among just three unilineal descent groups (minimum number for the maintenance of asymmetry). The combinations among these various terminological features of the Inca kinship system imply that any matrilateral cross-cousin marriage is also a patrilateral one; in other words, the MBd is at the same time the FFSdd, in conformity with the paraleli descent principle. These conclusions are supported, at least with regard to parallel descent, by specific evidence concerning the transmission of names in historical times. The author also puts forward the hypothesis (which, however, is impossible to verify given the data available) that the Quechua of Cuzco during the Inca period did in fact conceive the matrilateral cross-cousin marriage as a marriage between a man and his F²Sd².Lounsbury Floyd G. Aspects du système de parenté inca. In: Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations. 33ᵉ année, N. 5-6, 1978. pp. 990-1005

Analyse structurale des termes de parenté.

Lounsbury Floyd Glenn. Analyse structurale des termes de parenté.. In: Langages, 1ᵉ année, n°1, 1966. Recherches sémantiques, sous la direction de Tzetan Todorov. pp. 75-99

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