A post-European century in science

The coming century will bring globalization, a shift to new biotechnologies and information technologies, and a shift of the centers of gravity of the world away from its Eurocentric moorings to Asia. The shift in technologies will result in the three realms of information in culture, genes and computers coming together as a composite whole. Ecologies of information—the genetic, the cultural and the artefactual—will now jostle with each other. With automation, the 17th century Scientific Revolution's agenda will be left partly to machines. Further, the demise of modernism and the emergence of postmodernism are a reflection of the exhaustion of the Enlightenment project. A variety of cultural, epistemological and even ontological positions co-exist in today's sciences. As replacement macro agendas are sought in ontology, epistemology, logic and culture, Asia provides a readily available civilizational source.     

Organizational Dynamics and Adoption of Innovations: A Study within the Context of Software Firms in Sri Lanka

This paper examines the effect of organizational dynamics on innovation focus using the residual dominant and emergent theoretical framework (RDE) and the empirical evidence of four case studies. The findings revealed that different types of innovation coexist, but one type becomes dominant over other types at a certain time as the innovation focus is changed in line with the strategic priorities of firms. We found that innovation focus takes the form of product, process, and organizational innovation pattern over time when the firms move from an entrepreneurial organization to a more formal business corporation. More importantly, the RDE framework provides an appropriate lens for practitioners, in identifying the enablers and barriers of innovation.     

Reconceptualizing the cultural dynamics of the future

Many futures approaches are based on ethnocentric factors which do not apply outside their western contexts. This article summarizes critiques of current care theories of social sciences which takes into account some of this ethnocentricity. Finally, the article presents an alternative view of the dynamics of the future based on culture as a variable