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Revelation in Near-Death Experience
Authors: Shushan Gregory 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
Accounts of near-death experiences (NDEs) across cultures often include claims of encounters with deities or spirits who impart information to the experiencer. Other accounts involve the experiencer obtaining knowledge by other means, without the assistance of a non-human supernatural being. While some cases involve deceased relatives, the most significant factor in others might be the soul’s perceptions of the body from a vantage point outside it, seeing or travelling to other realms, having a panoramic life review, encountering the soul of a person not previously known to have died, having prophetic visions, or more generalized impressions of universal understanding and/or union. In all these senses, NDEs can be seen as revelatory experiences, with profound information being conveyed to the individual through ostensibly mystical or ‘religious’ experiences.
Eschatology and Revelation
Authors: O’Callaghan Paul 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
A systematic study of Christian ‘revelation’ commonly involves a distinction between ‘natural’ and ‘supernatural’ revelation, which derive respectively from the created world through which God acts and speaks, and from God’s personal word and action culminating in the teaching, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This chapter attempts to show that this binomial stands in need of a third category, in order to fully understand Christian revelation. The category in question is eschatology, without which revelation would be incomplete and ultimately incoherent. In the first part of the chapter an attempt is made to justify the distinction between ‘natural’ and ‘supernatural’ revelation on anthropological grounds. The second part goes on to explain the richness of the notion of revelation in terms of five different models which refer to the complex process by which revelation impinges on humans as the latter attempt to assimilate and identify with God’s word and grace: the propositional, the historical, inner experience, dialectic presence, and new awareness. All five models point directly or indirectly to the needed eschatological complement of revelation. Finally, the third section presents different aspects of Christian eschatology in which God is revealed to humanity definitively, ‘face to face’: the Parousia, or final coming of Jesus Christ at the end of time; the resurrection of the dead with the new heavens and the new earth; general judgement as God’s final word; all of which take place in the power of the Holy Spirit; then, heavenly glory as the eternal vision of God, or its possible loss; lastly, the significance of the end-time signs.
Traditionalism and Revelation
Authors: Murphy Francesca Aran 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
Traditionalism is the doctrine that God revealed himself to our first parents, and this revelation is the source of our knowledge of God: ‘the knowledge’, as London cabbies still call it, was passed on from its original recipients down the generations. Our knowledge of God is thus mediated through tradition; its only direct source is a divine revelation made to our original forebears. Traditionalism thus tends to accentuate that we cannot know God through our own efforts, for instance by philosophical proofs. Transmission from a single original source explains the analogies between religions and mythologies, while the ‘telephone game’, or ‘Chinese whispers’, over the millennia explains the diversities. Invented in the nineteenth century, traditionalism was at once a contribution to theory of religions, a piece of biblical anthropology, and a theory of revelation and its development. Traditionalists have held that without an original, igniting act of divine revelation to our first ancestors, it would be impossible for the human race to become a knowing, speaking creature, to create institutions, and act morally, or to obtain knowledge of God.
Emotion Expression, Empathic Reception, and Prosocial Behavior
Authors: Gaspar Augusta 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
This chapter addresses facial expression and its potential for communication, a much-debated issue especially in regard to emotion expression. This expressive potential is thought to co-evolve with facial expression perception and to be critical in social life. Factors affecting the perception of human facial emotion have been explored over the last few decades and they encompass sender and context features, as well as the decoder’s traits. One of the most neglected traits is that of the decoder’s empathy. The co-evolution of emotion signaling, emotion perception, and emotion expression regulation are, according to recent evidence, most certainly linked to empathy, particularly to the extremes of trait empathy—at one end, very poor decoders, and at the other end, higher than average emotion decoders. Studies on nonhuman primate expressive communication, empathy, and prosociality, and clues from the fossil record, may provide insights on the links between emotion expression, empathy and prosociality in human evolution.
Art, Sign, and Representation
Authors: Culley Elisabeth V. , Davidson Iain 
Published: June 2021

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This chapter addresses questions about the emergence of art, sign, and representation, showing what these categories mean as applied to the archaeological record and how evidence of them may relate to the evolution of human cognitive capacities. It goes beyond the Eurasian Upper Paleolithic to consider marked or decorated objects from significantly older sites associated with Anatomically Modern Humans in Africa and Indonesia, Neanderthals in Europe, and Homo erectus in Trinil, Java. The materials evidence a range of graphic production across significant space and time. They indicate the emergence of graphic expression and its role in human evolution is much more complex than traditional Eurocentric model, as well as more recent models, allow. The review points to problems with the current epistemology of symbolic evolution and emphasizes how the use of “art” and other traditional artifact classes bias interpretations of prehistoric behaviors and models of when and why symbolling emerged.
Introduction
Authors: Van de Ven Andrew H. , Poole Marshall Scott 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
This chapter summarizes and reflects on the evolving scholarship on processes of organizational change and innovation that has emerged since the first edition of The Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation in 2004. This includes human agency, time conceptions, causality, and levels of analysis. In addition, we add voices not heard in the first edition about affect and emotion, power and influence, paradox and conflict, political perspectives and endings of organization change, creativity and innovation. These core topics provide an overview of the handbook chapters and future directions for research and practice.
Social Movements and Organizational Change
Authors: Davis Gerald F. , Kim Eun Woo 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
Organizations are increasingly subject to political demands from outside actors and their own members. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are enabling a flourishing of grassroots social innovations and demands for justice that challenge traditional top-down theories of change. Over the past twenty years, scholars have found that social movement theory provides a useful approach to understanding movements within organizations, movements that target organizations, and movements that create organizations and industries. We review this recent work and propose an account that can help guide future research on the increasingly prevalent tide of politicallyoriented movements within organizations. We conclude that this is an especially promising domain for future research aimed at informing practice.
Organizational Routines And Organizational Change
Authors: Pentland Brian T. , Goh Kenneth T. 
Published: June 2021

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Current theory in routine dynamics focuses on patterning (Feldman 2016) as a mechanism for stability and change in routines. We define patterning as the process of adding, removing, or reinforcing paths in the narrative network that describes an organizational routine. Patterning is a hybrid mechanism that can be driven by any of the four change motors (teleology, dialectic, lifecycle, or evolution). Through patterning, routines change and adapt over time. In this chapter, the idea of organizational routines is illustrated with examples from videogame development. The authors suggest that narrative networks provide a way to see routine dynamics as network dynamics and to analyze routines and organizational change from a fresh point of view.
VSR Models of Change as Normative Practical Theory
Authors: Maurer Cara C. , Miner Anne S. , Crossan Mary 
Published: June 2021

AbstractThis chapter offers a counterpoint to increasingly complex computational models of evolutionary change processes at higher levels of analysis. It explores the value of internal VSR (Variation-Selection-Retention) models as practical tools for managers. Individual change agents may actively and deliberately influence each of the three core internal processes and their balance and connect them with external VSR processes. Individuals may shape the organization’s current and potential future contexts beyond mere external adaptation to creation of novel future states. Broadening traditional assumptions of top-down rational decision-making, we include the potential of human imagination, and emotions of individuals and groups as engines of change as improvements to existing internal VSR models. A normative theory of internal VSR processes offers a practical tool for day-to-day operations of agents interested in understanding and affecting organization change. We encourage academics to bring renewed enthusiasm to teaching internal VSR models of change to practicing managers.
Microfoundations of Innovation as Process
Authors: Garud Raghu , Turunen Marja 
Published: June 2021

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Extant literature lacks the microfoundations of innovation as process. To fill this lacuna, we first introduce and extend Usher’s cumulative synthesis model comprising four steps: the perception of an unsatisfactory pattern, the setting of the stage, the primary act of insight, and critical revision and development. We then probe the assumptions underlying the model, explore how it has influenced contemporary scholars, and how it can be applied to enhance scholarship on and the practice of innovation. We conclude with observations on how innovation can be a part of organizing rather than remain apart from it, and suggest future research possibilities.
Interorganizational Network Change
Authors: Shumate Michelle , Gibson Zachary 
Published: June 2021

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This chapter examines current theorizing and research on interorganizational network change, and considers its antecedents, processes, outcomes, and management. We perform a systematic review of this literature across several disciplines, including communication, management, organization studies, public administration, and technology studies. Combining the frameworks laid out by Kilduff and Tsai (2003) and Van de Ven and Poole (1995), we demonstrate that the process of goal-directed and serendipitous network change operates using different mechanisms. We highlight the dominant theories and research trends for both types of networks, then we conclude the chapter with a critique and offer four prescriptions for future research.
Change That Concludes
Authors: Mantere Saku , Wiedner Rene 
Published: June 2021

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Organizational change ends things while it creates new openings. This conclusive aspect of change tends to be underappreciated by both change agents and academics. We integrate streams of literature to answer four questions. First, we ask where and when conclusive change happens in organizations: what are its representative contexts? Then we ask what conclusive change is: what other types of change are there and how do conclusions fit in? Our third question is why conclusive change remains underappreciated. Bringing insight together from the three previous questions, we conclude the paper by asking how change agents should approach conclusive change.
Dialectical Change Models
Authors: Farjoun Moshe 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
M. C. Escher’s ‘Drawing Hands’ lithograph displays two hands, each drawing the other with a pencil. This image has held significance for organization theorists as a representation of the ironic, paradoxical, recursive, and entangled features of organizations. Here, this lithograph is used as an intriguing entry into discussions of dialectical change models and a useful metaphor for the organization of the chapter, which reflects on the previous contributions to this handbook: the right hand in the drawing would represent the different chapters of this handbook under review; the left hand would represent dialectics and its key principles. The dialectics related chapters are organized into three groups which focus on allied traditions, social movements, and organizational interventions respectively, and which pose the following questions for organizational dialectics research: a) its standing vis-à-vis other models and literatures, b) how it can be applied to different phenomena, and c) how it relates to practice.
Critical Approaches and Perspectives on Organizational Change
Authors: Oswick Rosie , Oswick Cliff , Grant David 
Published: June 2021

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This chapter explores the various ways in which opposing and/or contradictory entities unfold and play out with regard to change in organizations. This is undertaken from two different viewpoints. First, from a micro-phenomenological perspective it examines how insights derived from critical theory and other critical traditions have influenced the development of change strategies, interventions, and techniques. Second, at a more macro-level, it explores the extent to which particular schools of thought with regard to organizational change and organization development (OD) have embraced and/or resisted, the inevitable and unavoidable critical challenges and opportunities presented by opposing agents, competing interests, conflicting entities, and contrasting meanings in organizations. The chapter concludes by discussing the scope for, and possible directions of, critical change scholarship and practice in the future.
An Effectual Entreprenurial Model of Organizational Change
Authors: Sarasvathy Saras D. , Venkataraman Sankaran 
Published: June 2021

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An effectual frame offers an artifactual view of the spaces within which organizations are conceptualized as operating in, thereby allowing us to see those spaces themselves as artifacts of a process that operates in a non-predictive, non-adaptive, and non-teleological manner. Put another way, an effectual process consists of individuals and organizations that work with things already within their control to proactively shape and co-create their environments and futures. An effectual model of organizational change would therefore examine and explain the co-creation of organizational spaces within temporal flows in which actions and interactions between stakeholders may offer kairotic stepping stones for time itself to be seen as a resource to be leveraged rather than a constraint to be overcome.
Eastern Yin-Yang Model of Change
Authors: Jing Runtian 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
Chinese cultural yin-yang view of change offers a rich understanding of organizational change process, actions, and context. Based on a “becoming” ontology, this yin-yang view assumes the reality to be an “ever-changing flow” rather than an event with clear beginning and ending points. By highlighting the concept of momentum, it encourages people to achieve a successful change by implementing various timing strategies such as momentum-seizing, momentum-entraining, and momentum-creating. Some ongoing studies on the yin-yang view of change are reviewed, including cultural beliefs in continuous change, momentum as driver of the change process, change agency as paradoxical leadership, and dialectical change with mutual transformation. The chapter illustrates the yin-yang model of change through the case of the Chengdu Bus Group that contributes novel insights into the previous literature on organizational change. It also summarizes the possible strengths and criticisms of this yin-yang view and puts forward some suggestions for future studies.
Do gas clouds in narrow-line regions of Seyfert galaxies come from their nuclei?
Authors: Joh Kazuma , Nagao Tohru , Wada Keiichi , Terao Koki , Yamashita Takuji 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
The narrow-line region (NLR) consists of gas clouds ionized by the strong radiation from the active galactic nucleus (AGN), distributed in the spatial scale of AGN host galaxies. The strong emission lines from the NLR are useful to diagnose physical and chemical properties of the interstellar medium in AGN host galaxies. However, the origin of the NLR is unclear; the gas clouds in NLRs may originally be in the host and photoionized by the AGN radiation, or they may be transferred from the nucleus with AGN-driven outflows. In order to study the origin of the NLR, we systematically investigate the gas density and velocity dispersion of NLR gas clouds using a large spectroscopic data set taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The [S ii] emission-line flux ratio and [O iii] velocity width of 9571 type-2 Seyfert galaxies and 110041 star-forming galaxies suggest that the gas density and velocity dispersion of NLR clouds in Seyfert galaxies (ne ≈ 194 cm−3 and $\sigma _{\rm [O\,{\small III}]} \approx 147\:$km s−1) are systematically larger than those of clouds in H ii regions of star-forming galaxies (ne ≈ 29 cm−3 and $\sigma _{\rm [O\,{\small III}]} \approx 58\:$km s−1). Interestingly, the electron density and velocity dispersion of NLR gas clouds are larger for Seyfert galaxies with a higher [O iii]/Hβ flux ratio, i.e., with a more active AGN. We also investigate the spatially-resolved kinematics of ionized gas clouds using the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at the Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey data for 90 Seyfert galaxies and 801 star-forming galaxies. We find that the velocity dispersion of NLR gas clouds in Seyfert galaxies is larger than that in star-forming galaxies at a fixed stellar mass, at both central and off-central regions. These results suggest that gas clouds in NLRs come from the nucleus, probably through AGN outflows.
VPS18-regulated vesicle trafficking controls the secretion of pectin and its modifying enzyme during pollen tube growth in Arabidopsis
Authors: Hou Saiying , Shi Jiao , Hao Lihong , Wang Zhijuan , Liao Yalan , Gu Hongya , Dong Juan , Dresselhaus Thomas , Zhong Sheng , Qu Li-Jia 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
In eukaryotes, homotypic fusion and vacuolar protein sorting (HOPS) as well as class C core vacuole/endosome tethering (CORVET) are evolutionarily conserved membrane tethering complexes that play important roles in lysosomal/vacuolar trafficking. Whether HOPS and CORVET control endomembrane trafficking in pollen tubes, the fastest growing plant cells, remains largely elusive. In this study, we demonstrate that the four core components shared by the two complexes, Vacuole protein sorting 11 (VPS11), VPS16, VPS33, and VPS18, are all essential for pollen tube growth in Arabidopsis thaliana and thus for plant reproduction success. We used VPS18 as a representative core component of the complexes to show that the protein is localized to both multivesicular bodies (MVBs) and the tonoplast in a growing pollen tube. Mutant vps18 pollen tubes grew more slowly in vivo, resulting in a significant reduction in male transmission efficiency. Additional studies revealed that membrane fusion from MVBs to vacuoles is severely compromised in vps18 pollen tubes, corroborating the function of VPS18 in late endocytic trafficking. Furthermore, vps18 pollen tubes produce excessive exocytic vesicles at the apical zone and excessive amounts of pectin and pectin methylesterases in the cell wall. In conclusion, this study establishes an additional conserved role of HOPS/CORVET in homotypic membrane fusion during vacuole biogenesis in pollen tubes and reveals a feedback regulation of HOPS/CORVET in the secretion of cell wall modification enzymes of rapidly growing plant cells.
Response of laboratory plasma influenced by a feedback loop to external force
Authors: Fukuyama Takao , Omoto Masahiro 
Published: June 2021

AbstractThis study experimentally examines the sensitivity of laboratory plasma influenced by a feedback loop to applied external force, with the objective of gaining insight into chaos control in plasma. The ionization waves in laboratory plasma are adopted as the medium of a typical nonlinear system. In the case of a system without the influence of feedback (defined as system A), the orbit of the chaotic system changes to a periodic one as the intensity of the applied external force increases. In the case of a system with the influence of feedback (defined as system B), the chaotic orbit changes to a periodic one by the application of external force with lower intensity (approximately two-thirds) compared to system A. This reveals that the feedback loop enhances the response of the system to external forces.
Educational Tracking and Personality Formation: Evidence from a Dual System
Authors: Birkelund Jesper Fels 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
Although educational stratification research finds that educational tracking differentiates the development of cognitive skills and academic achievement, little is known about its consequences for noncognitive traits. This paper presents a framework for understanding how track placement affects personality traits and empirically tests its implications using longitudinal survey data from Denmark. I find that enrollment in the vocational track in upper secondary education on average increases conscientiousness by one third of a standard deviation more than enrollment in the academic track does. No other personality traits are affected by track placement. Additional analyses show that the influence of vocational education and training on conscientiousness is greater among students taking on an apprenticeship and learning a skilled trade, suggesting that such training closes the between-track gap in conscientiousness by fostering a skilled worker identity.
Joe Zhixiong Zhou v SAIF Partners II L.P.: The importance of mapping out the correct corporate structure
Authors: Chung Benny , Yeon Thomas , Au-Yeung Bennett 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
Joe Zhixiong Zhou v SAIF Partners II L.P. is a recent judgment of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal which concerns a dispute between a private equity fund and its former partner. This judgment, written by Lord Hoffmann NPJ and substantially shorter than those handed down by the lower courts, has several important implications. In this article, we will first unpack and explain the judgment and supplement the discussions with the relevant legal principles and concepts. We will then discuss the judgment’s implications to cases involving a complex web of parties and/or fiduciaries.