Donald P Cushman
Biographic Data
| ID | 182735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald P Cushman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald P |
| FAMILY NAME | Cushman |
| SIGNATURE | CUSHMAN D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transitions to Competitive Government: Speed, Consensus, and Performance
Describes how private-sector management strategies can help governments obtain greater access to global resources, create more jobs, and provide better social services to their citizens. Transitions to Competitive Government demonstrates how government can add value to a region, a nation, a state, its citizens, and their social values through speed, consensus, and performance. It does this in three stages. First, it shows competitive government t…
Prying Open the Window of Opportunity: Some Rhetorical and Social Scientific Dynamics to Argumentation
Social scientists' arguments integrate both rhetorical and scientific features. Our belief is that analysis of these integrated arguments offers an opportunity to distinguish between the peculiarly rhetorical and scientific components of social scientists' argumentative efforts to resolve problems of inquiry. Our analysis shows that rhetorical forms combine with special empirical contents in problem-solving arguments that aim ultimately to establ…
High-Speed Management: A Revolution in Organizational Communication in the 1990s
A series of revolutions have taken place within the global economy, transforming the theoretical basis for organizational coalignment and thus all information and communication processes. This essay tracks the principal bases for that transformation. It then explicates a new theory of organizational communication: high-speed management. High-speed management has as its goal the achievement and maintenance of sustainable competitive advantage thro…
A window of opportunity argument
The role of critique in the ethnographic study of human communication practices
Ethnography and criticism: Either/or or both/and
Introduction and Initial Insights
Contemporary Chinese Philosophy and Political Communication
The Rules Approach to Communication Theory: A Philosophical and Operational Perspective
Message-Attitude-Behavior Relationship: Theory, Methodology, and Application
For many years, there has been a need in the social and behavioral sciences for a single volume providing a precise and careful treatment of axiomatic, causal processes, and sets-of-laws approaches to theory construction. In this volume, we have brought together applications of stochastic, path analytic, and multidimensional scaling research methodologies to advance understanding of one of the behavioral sciences' most troublesome problems: the d…
Attitudes, Behaviors, and Messages: An Introductory Overview
Generality and Necessity in Three Types of Human Communication Theory — Special Attention to Rules Theory
A review of the philosophy of science literature suggests that any viable theory must meet the criteria of generality, that is, that the regularities described are pervasive within a definable domain rather than idiosyncratic, and of necessity, that is, that the theoretic statements specify relationships which obtain because of the operation of some definable force rather than occur capriciously. Three types of theories which have been applied to…
Generality and Necessity in Three Types of Theory About Human Communication, With Special Attention to Rules Theory
An analysis is provided of the procedures involved in creating and certifying theories constructed within the laws, systems, and rules perspectives of human communication. A comparison of these methods of theory construction reveals two criteria for assessing the epistemological and metaphysical claims of all such theories. Each of these methods attempts to establish propositions which are general rather than particular and which are necessary ra…
Weaver's rhetorical theory: Axiology and the adjustment of belief, invention, and judgment
Any complete rhetorical theory must consider the problem of adjusting beliefs to others while maintaining the self. Richard Weaver suggests an approach to this problem by deriving a logic of belief from a social conception of man and adapting invention and judgment to this logic. Weaver presents rhetoric as a means for discovering ways to transcend cultural pluralism and inter‐cultural diversity without foregoing our selves
An Approach to Communication Theory: Toward Consensus on Rules
Communication is an activity which gains meaning and significance from consensually shared rules. What is transmitted in communication is structure or information, but not all experiences from which we extract information are communication experiences. Communication requires in addition that at least two individuals attempt to take one another into account by developing and utilizing communication rules to guide and constitute the significance of…
Generality and Necessity in Three Types of Theory About Human Communication, With Special Attention to Rules Theory
An analysis is provided of the procedures involved in creating and certifying theories constructed within the laws, systems, and rules perspectives of human communication. A comparison of these methods of theory construction reveals two criteria for assessing the epistemological and metaphysical claims of all such theories. Each of these methods attempts to establish propositions which are general rather than particular and which are necessary ra…
Weaver's rhetorical theory: Axiology and the adjustment of belief, invention, and judgment
Any complete rhetorical theory must consider the problem of adjusting beliefs to others while maintaining the self. Richard Weaver suggests an approach to this problem by deriving a logic of belief from a social conception of man and adapting invention and judgment to this logic. Weaver presents rhetoric as a means for discovering ways to transcend cultural pluralism and inter‐cultural diversity without foregoing our selves
A window of opportunity argument
The role of critique in the ethnographic study of human communication practices
An Approach to Communication Theory: Toward Consensus on Rules
Communication is an activity which gains meaning and significance from consensually shared rules. What is transmitted in communication is structure or information, but not all experiences from which we extract information are communication experiences. Communication requires in addition that at least two individuals attempt to take one another into account by developing and utilizing communication rules to guide and constitute the significance of…
Weaver's rhetorical theory: Axiology and the adjustment of belief, invention, and judgment
Any complete rhetorical theory must consider the problem of adjusting beliefs to others while maintaining the self. Richard Weaver suggests an approach to this problem by deriving a logic of belief from a social conception of man and adapting invention and judgment to this logic. Weaver presents rhetoric as a means for discovering ways to transcend cultural pluralism and inter‐cultural diversity without foregoing our selves
Generality and Necessity in Three Types of Human Communication Theory — Special Attention to Rules Theory
A review of the philosophy of science literature suggests that any viable theory must meet the criteria of generality, that is, that the regularities described are pervasive within a definable domain rather than idiosyncratic, and of necessity, that is, that the theoretic statements specify relationships which obtain because of the operation of some definable force rather than occur capriciously. Three types of theories which have been applied to…
Generality and Necessity in Three Types of Theory About Human Communication, With Special Attention to Rules Theory
An analysis is provided of the procedures involved in creating and certifying theories constructed within the laws, systems, and rules perspectives of human communication. A comparison of these methods of theory construction reveals two criteria for assessing the epistemological and metaphysical claims of all such theories. Each of these methods attempts to establish propositions which are general rather than particular and which are necessary ra…
Attitudes, Behaviors, and Messages: An Introductory Overview
Message-Attitude-Behavior Relationship: Theory, Methodology, and Application
For many years, there has been a need in the social and behavioral sciences for a single volume providing a precise and careful treatment of axiomatic, causal processes, and sets-of-laws approaches to theory construction. In this volume, we have brought together applications of stochastic, path analytic, and multidimensional scaling research methodologies to advance understanding of one of the behavioral sciences' most troublesome problems: the d…
Introduction and Initial Insights
Contemporary Chinese Philosophy and Political Communication
The Rules Approach to Communication Theory: A Philosophical and Operational Perspective
The role of critique in the ethnographic study of human communication practices
Ethnography and criticism: Either/or or both/and
A window of opportunity argument
High-Speed Management: A Revolution in Organizational Communication in the 1990s
A series of revolutions have taken place within the global economy, transforming the theoretical basis for organizational coalignment and thus all information and communication processes. This essay tracks the principal bases for that transformation. It then explicates a new theory of organizational communication: high-speed management. High-speed management has as its goal the achievement and maintenance of sustainable competitive advantage thro…
Prying Open the Window of Opportunity: Some Rhetorical and Social Scientific Dynamics to Argumentation
Social scientists' arguments integrate both rhetorical and scientific features. Our belief is that analysis of these integrated arguments offers an opportunity to distinguish between the peculiarly rhetorical and scientific components of social scientists' argumentative efforts to resolve problems of inquiry. Our analysis shows that rhetorical forms combine with special empirical contents in problem-solving arguments that aim ultimately to establ…
Transitions to Competitive Government: Speed, Consensus, and Performance
Describes how private-sector management strategies can help governments obtain greater access to global resources, create more jobs, and provide better social services to their citizens. Transitions to Competitive Government demonstrates how government can add value to a region, a nation, a state, its citizens, and their social values through speed, consensus, and performance. It does this in three stages. First, it shows competitive government t…
Computer Science (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Communication (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)