The Material Turn in New Realism and the Science Based Innovation

Keitaro Kuwada () and Noboru Matsushima ()
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Keitaro Kuwada: Kobe University
Noboru Matsushima: Kobe University

Chapter Chapter 7 in Materiality in Management Studies, 2022, pp 59-68 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The material turnMaterial turn is the recent movement in the philosophical realism. The theorists of so-called new realism share a common tendency to rescue the existence which transcends the human experience and recognition from the dogma of humanism. In discussing the concept of sociomateriality, Orlikowski referred to Karen Barad, who had advocated agential realismAgential realism in new realismNew realism. However, while Orlikowski emphasized human interpretation for the unintended consequences of technology, Barad took her position of onto-epistem-ologyonto-epistem-ology, which holds that human's subjective perceptions are themselves shaped by the apparatusApparatus. Based on her onto-epistem-ologyonto-epistem-ology, we get a much broader analytical perspective that sociomateriality scholars have not analyzed. For example, the science based innovationScience based innovation, which includes basic science outside the company, which has been a matter of course in the MOTManagement of Technology (MOT) (Management of Technology)Management of Technology (MOT), will come into the field of analysis. In this chapter, we briefly present our empirical investigation of the science based innovationScience based innovation driven by Japanese synchrotron radiation facility, SPring-8, noting that a diametrically opposed innovation orientation has been created by device that allow smaller or bigger observations.

Keywords: Material turn; Agential realism; Quantum entanglement; Apparatus; Science based innovation; Laboratory equipment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-8642-9_7

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