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Social Innovation (si) is a concept characterized by its multiple definitions and characteristics, arising from an increase in the interest of researchers on the subject. This denotes that SI constitutes a field under construction that, according to various authors, requires studies carried out from different disciplines and approaches that rescue the diversities and realities involved in this issue. Precisely, Organizational Studies (eo) is a transdisciplinary field that studies the realities experienced in organizations and in organizational processes, based on various theoretical contributions and study currents. Given this, the objective of the work is to reflect on the theoretical contributions that the eo offer and why they may be relevant to deepen the study of SI. The main contribution of the work is that some specific contributions of the field are rescued: organizing or organized, power and strategic analysis, ambiguity and organized anarchies, new institutionalism, learning and knowledge in organizations, organizational change, and anthropology of organizations. From the explanation of each one, it is argued how they can contribute to the SI analysis. In the end, it is concluded that the topics discussed give rise to a future research agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It has been traditionally sustained that predicates attributed to God and to the creatures are analogical predicates. But, what is analogy? Several philosophers have thought that analogy should be taken as a form of ambiguity. Here we argue that predicates attributed to God and to creatures are neither ambiguous nor vague. Following some suggestions given by McDaniel, we propose a view of analogy in which the semantic phenomenon is associated with the more or less natural character of the property or properties that the entities that satisfy the analogous predicate instantiate. A predicate "θ" is analogous if and only if the property Θ, which something instantiates, if and only if it is θ, is less natural that any property Ξ so that anything that instantiates Ξ, instantiates Θ. Furthermore, it is required that the entities of which the analogous term is predicated should be either ontologically or epistemically dependent on each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As happens with many concepts that regulate our rules, the profession concept is another whose knowledge and delimitation are taken of granted, as in our fundamental law as in the local rules that regulate it. However, this ambiguity brings asymmetries and disadvantages coming from the discretionary and laxity of their interpretation, generating disputes and unnecessarily costs. This article focuses on its clarification in light of others, as occupation and trade, with a brief historical review, and its entails with concepts derivative from: professional and being professional, with reference to legal texts: current Constitution and its predecessors, Constitutions of the States of the Republic, as well as the State laws, concluding with a proposed definition based on their essential elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cuando se creían agotadas las posibilidades de la literatura, Salvador Elizondo y James Joyce encuentran nuevos caminos en la creación de su estética. Por medio de la aliteración, la metátesis y otros recursos estilístico-literarios para producir ambigüedad; con sus experimentos en la formación y explotación de las palabras obtienen datos de una riqueza poco usual. Joyce logra crear una obra que se multiplica en significaciones que se creerían infinitas; Elizondo explora distintas técnicas y artificios de pensamiento, juega con las ideas, y en la repetición de frases encuentra la duración de un instante. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]