Emergence of new reality Validity and Capital in Business

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Emergence of new realityValidity and Capital
in Business

• Emergence and new forms of capital and power
  ontological questions
• Lennart Nörreklit, 2007

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Validity

• The question of validity is a question of the
  soundness and strength of the concept of reality
  implied.
• The concept of reality is different from the
  concept of World.
• The distinction real-unreal relates to the
  nature of the relation between actor and world.
• Reality the functioning of this relationship
  implies human beings as being able to participate
  and act i. e. as actors.

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Actor reality - world
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Reality

• The reality of being in the world as
  participating actor presupposes
• A factual ground. Otherwise nothing is possible
  everything is just a dream.
• Possibilities that are contain (integrated) in
  the factual ground. Without possibilities an
  actor is dead.
• Values that are contained in the range of
  possibilities. Possibilities are irrelevant
  without values.
• Communicative meaning that expresses this
  integration and thus promotes space for it in a
  communicative world.
• This 4-foulded unity (integration) creates a
  power of realization. Without it nothing real
  happens.

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The four dimensions
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Valid determinations

• The explanation of a concept is valid, if and
  only if it explains how this concept contributes
  to the construction of reality.
• Only then can we understand the concept and why
  we have it and need it.
• The other methodical accepted forms of definition
  do not guarantee validity.

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Will to power

• Capital is power (Makt)
• Power / makt is the ability to create / produce
  something.
• The traditional concept of power in
  industrialism, for instance, is however, power as
  ability to control other people and thus produces
  the lack of power.
• Makt/power is trust
• Social forms of power change through change in
  that which people trust.
• In the system based modernity of industrialism
  trust was trust in power as suppression
  oppression, hardness, strength and thus rust in
  the creation of the proletariat.
• In globalization trust seems to be trust in
  power/makt as innovation, new-thinking, creative
  emergence.

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Leadership als capital 1

• Case The regional SN-Bank.
• Goal To become a national bank chain.
• Strategy
• Not Buying new local banks
• But Hiring convincing leaders who would like to
  have their own bank.
• Radical decentralization of the bank chain.

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Leadership as capital 2

• Thus SN-bank recognized the existence of
  leadership as relatively cheap available capital.
• In addition they need access to knowledge and
  creativity. The new leader is able to acces that.
  
• Thus Business need three forms of capital
• Leadership capital,
• intellectual capital and
• economic capital.

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Capital

• Resources Capital Reality
• From the perspective of business Capital is a
  resource that simply is available to business in
  the market.
• (In contradistinction to for instance oil under
  the North Pole.)
• I.e. the legal and the technical conditions are
  fulfilled.

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Management and Deterministic Modernity

• Systemic perspective
• 1-dimensionality
• Discipline, action control
• People are work force or economy
• The world of necessity is the world of
  impossibility
• The world is nothing.

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• 3 slags kapital Videnskapital (intellektuel
  kapital), ledelseskapital og økonomisk kapital
• Viden relaterer sig grundlæggende til facts
• Ledelse til værdiformulering
• Økonomisk kapital betyder adgang (mulighed) til
  alt det, der findes i det økonomiske rum den
  muliggør således en nærmest vilkårlig aggregering
  af tekniske muligheder

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Viden og indsigt facts og integration

• Viden (intellektuel) kapital udtrykker tilegnede
  facts. Kærnen i vidensbegrebet er sikkerheden,
  som den er i facts
• Intellektuel kapital rækker imidlertid ud over
  beskrivende opremsninger af data, der i sig selv
  er irrelevante for alt.
• Vidensdybden er udtryk for integrationen i de
  således tilegnede facts. Professionalisme at
  kende facts muligheder til bunds.
• Der er alle mulige former for viden teknisk i
  produktion, menneskelig i handel, etc. Disse er
  alle nødvendige for at skabe en værdiforskel, der
  driver en ny virkelighedsdannelse.

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Værdi, kommunikation og ledelseskapital

• Værdi angår drivet
• Værdiforskellen er drivet i interaktion
• Uden værdiforskel for køber og sælger ingen
  handel, ingen aftaler
• Værdiforskellen udfolder sig om forskellige
  former for værdi økonomisk værdi, teknisk
  nytteværdi og livsværdi.
• Ledelseskapitalen organiserer værdidrivet ved
  hjælp af økonomisk kapital, hvorigennem
  videnskapitalen sættes i spil.
• Kommunikationen er metoden. Værdiforskellen er
  drivet. De åbne, intelligente facts er
  forudsæntningerne.

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Dobbeltmodellen

• Observation facts denne aktør-verden
  korrespondens skal integrere alt
• også f.eks. refleksion mulighed,
• følelse / indtryk værdi og
• kommunikation/udtryk - mening

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Causality

• Physical causality contrary to final causality
• Emergence is the creation of a new form of being
  this implies a new form of identity and a new
  form of being, that is realized through this form
  of identity.
• Thus an emergent reality is constituted through
  new types of final causality, that reproduce and
  vitalize themselves (reproductive circular system
  of processes) in order to maintain the identity.

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Emergence 1

• The following are insuficient explanations of
  emergence
• Dialectics as thesis antithesis synthesis
• The steps of critical Realism Phenomenon, fact,
  reality
• A step-less monism
• Reductionism
• Emergence of new reality is something different

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Emergence 2

• From one level of existence to an other through
  emergence
• Emergence Not result of a quantitative movement
  but as the result of a possibility that is
  demanded more and more
• Not as evolution / the development of a gen not
  as genealogy

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Emergence 3

• Emergence is based on the condition that the
  possibilities of complex units are not the same
  as those of their components.
• All integrated reality is the result of a
  complexity of p0ossibilities, that combined
  constitute new possibilities.
• I the human sphere of existence our creative way
  of being as a being in need of a (loving)
  relation to the world always searches for better,
  more promising life forms, that realize our
  emerging possibilities.

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Emergence and destruction

• Development exists within a form of reality
  being is becoming.
• Destruction is related to a form of existence, as
  is emergence.
• An emergent way of being is influenced through
  and influences super- and sub-forms of being
  (structures / systems).
• Thus it may be destroyed in different ways.