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Yayın Orators in the realm of pandemonium playing God(Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, 2019-10-22) Edman, Timuçin Buğra; Gözen, HacerOnce upon a time Sigmund Freud proclaimed that technology was the means by which to push humans beyond the edge of their biological limits, transforming them into ‘a kind of prosthetic’ God. By the time humans began to dominate the world, many animal species had already disappeared because of man’s hunger. This was the first indicator that humans were prone to determine the fate of other species. The wars they fought, massacres they ordered, and extinctions they caused. The center of the world was not large enough, while the center of the universe was occupied by God. Dante Alighieri imagined the planets through their proximity to the Sun as our juxtaposition to God. For humankind, the inability to control themselves was disturbing enough. Zamiatin, in his We, created a dystopian world at the edge of Armageddon in which people become the subjects of a long-lasting project that portrays religions as myths. The aim of this study is to display the imaginable cost of playing God through science, which is presumably designed to make life easier, not to replace God.Yayın Knowledge economy and the emergence of less-hierarchical organizational structures: an institutionalist approach(Işık Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2023-10-25) Koloğlugil, Serhat; Koloğlugil, SerhatRecent years have witnessed the proliferation of horizontal and less-hierarchical governance structures in organizations. The present paper argues that this development can be read as an institutional transition, within organizations themselves, in response to the rise of knowledge economy. Drawing also upon the related literature on hunter and gatherers, the paper shows that asset-based production is generally related with hierarchical social relations, whereas knowledge-based economic activity tends to generate relatively horizontal and egalitarian structures. It is argued in the paper that a similar dynamic is at work in today’s knowledge-based organizations, and that the institutional approach has the conceptual tools to study this transformation. In this regard, the paper aims to open up a theoretical space where the tools of institutional theory can be used, not only in the study of macro social-structures, but also in that of organizations and their transformations. Some further theoretical and practical implications of this approach are discussed in the final section.
