Showing papers in "Prometheus in 2023"
TL;DR: In this article , the authors outline the content and contours of a fictional tale called Digital Enchantment, based on the author's observations and experience of high-level policy discussions concerning digital policy and regulation as an academic lawyer with expertise in the governance of emerging technology.
Abstract: This paper outlines the content and contours of a fictional tale called the ‘Digital Enchantment’, based on the author’s observations and experience of high-level policy discussions concerning digital policy and regulation as an academic lawyer with expertise in the governance of emerging technology. Peddled primarily by technology industry representatives, the Digital Enchantment captured the imagination of many contemporary policy-makers from the early to mid-1990s onwards as the early internet emerged. It celebrates the remarkable powers of digital innovation, capable of solving intractable social problems with an accompanying moral message exhorting its audience to recognize the importance of leaving the market free and unfettered, enabling innovation to flourish freely. The Digital Enchantment rests on three core tenets: (1) digital solutionism, (2) the absence of ill-effects doctrine and (3) the extraordinary value of unfettered innovation. This paper outlines and critically evaluates each tenet, demonstrating that they are based on alluring simplifications and half-truths that purport to offer reassurance in the face of our growing unease and anxiety about the kind of future that the digital revolution might portend, while providing clear guideposts to policy-makers to refrain from legal intervention. It argues that we must work towards permanently dispelling the hold which Digital Enchantment still exerts over the mind of many policy-makers in favour of a richer, deeper and more clear-eyed, evidence-based understanding of the power and perils posed by digital innovation and its relationship to law, regulation and society in our networked digital age.
TL;DR: The psychedelic renaissance provides an entry point for reflecting in a more critical vein about "user innovation" as discussed by the authors , which is predicated on psychedelics being reframed as therapeutic.
Abstract: Psychedelic substances are undergoing a renaissance. As they have been out-of-bounds for public research for half a century, the development process has been driven by drug user communities. With the prospect of a legalization of psychedelics, the data collected by users about toxicity, dosage, etc. have been turned into billion-dollar assets. Know-how stemming from stigmatized user communities is being transferred to companies and put under the protection of patent law. This transfer of information is predicated on psychedelics being reframed as therapeutic. The psychedelic renaissance provides an entry point for reflecting in a more critical vein about ‘user innovation’.
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the challenges of implementing innovative management accounting techniques, referred to as strategic management accounting (SMA), the interrelationship among the challenges and the impact of the challenges on SMA usage intensity.
Abstract: This study investigates the challenges of implementing innovative management accounting techniques, referred to as strategic management accounting (SMA), the interrelationship among the challenges and the impact of the challenges on SMA usage intensity. From the analysis of survey data obtained from listed manufacturing companies in Nigeria, the result supports the conclusion that SMA implementation challenges are interrelated. However, lack of top management support and low awareness/lack of knowledge are contributory to most of the implementation challenges. The challenges discouraging the intensive use of SMA are the perception that SMA implementation is unnecessary as strategy issues are already integrated in other functions within the organization, high implementation cost and problems relating to information flow between departments within the organization. The current study contributes to knowledge in the sense that it is the first (to the researchers’ knowledge) to examine specifically the interrelationship among SMA implementation challenges in the Nigerian context, thereby drawing attention to the need to consider the challenges to embracing management accounting innovations holistically. Knowledge of SMA implementation challenges could help explain the low adoption rate of SMA in developing countries. Such knowledge might be helpful in providing a robust response to the challenges of implementing management accounting innovations.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors draw on extensive ethnographic data and a multiple case study design to develop new theory about innovation processes and techniques, by contrasting the experiences and outcomes of five innovation projects in an educational technology company, the study considers two distinct, if often interrelated, strategies to navigating market uncertainty: theory building and theory testing.
Abstract: This study draws on extensive ethnographic data and a multiple case study design to develop new theory about innovation processes and techniques. By contrasting the experiences and outcomes of five innovation projects in an educational technology company, the study considers two distinct, if often interrelated, strategies to navigating market uncertainty: theory building and theory testing. The paper theorizes how the appropriate balance between these two strategies is driven by the multiplicity, or number of and relationships between relevant stakeholders and stakeholder interests, in the innovation context. The data suggest that multiplicity increases the value of rigorous – and potentially more time-consuming – theory building, while simultaneously increasing the potential risks and costs of poorly grounded theory testing. These insights challenge contemporary views on innovation teaching and practice, which have increasingly emphasized action over analysis.