...Igor Perko Purpose This paper aims to introduce a semi-structured interaction observation methodology to highlight how structures, roles, constraints and feedback loops shape the publishing process, examining in detail a single instance. It focuses on academic publishing as a systemic interaction...

...Helmut Nechansky Purpose The paper analyzes how the goal-setting of two individuals or social units A and B determines the utilities, which the two parties can gain in a dyadic interaction. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based on a dyadic utility space representing the utilities...

...Helmut Nechansky Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how individual acts of goal-setting of two persons or systems A and B determine, which modes of coexistence become possible in an interaction of the two. Design/methodology/approach – Some person or system A can approach...