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Posselt, Ulrike Eva (2025) Inditation Theory: Balancing the process from the entrepreneurial making up of ideas to the composing of artefacts in organizations by means of fluency. PhD thesis, University of Gloucestershire. doi:10.46289/LRQI7558
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Abstract
An idea can change the world. The inter- and trans-disciplinary dissertation, located in entrepreneurship, aims to outline and define ‘inditation theory’. This study incorporates the conceptual redesign of the old term ‘to indite’ (‘to make up’, ‘to compose’). Inditation theory describes and explains the dynamic process of making up an entrepreneurial idea to the composing of a sense-making, meaningful, new artefact. Artefacts such as artwork or prototypes for mass production could serve as unique starting points for inventions and innovations. Inditation theory contributes a practice-oriented tool, a model of the ‘inditation balance’. Two interwoven processes, the ‘fluency process’ and the ‘inditation process’, funnel into the inditation balance. The inditation balance serves as an orientation tool for individuals or organizations to fluently navigate the inditation process from an idea to an artefact. The fluency process, which is related to Csikszentmihalyi’s ‘flow’ concept (1975), reconceptualizes flow experience by focusing on the Janusian character of the flow phenomenon, and connects it to conflict management and conflict resolution. The inditation process relates to the progression from an idea to an artefact. The inditation balance encompasses a visual model of cascading stages on a continuum between an immersive ‘edge’ and an absorptive ‘abyss’. Glasl (1980) described conflict stages as descending, in the sense of being life-threatening, eventually ending in an annihilating ‘abyss’. Newly added, life-supporting stages, where people might thrive towards an ‘edge’, relate to flow. Between the ends of the continuum, the edge and the abyss, people could orient themselves, fluently navigating and balancing the process from an idea to an artefact. The study suggests that entering the state of flow from all stages might be possible. Methodologically, inditation theory has been built on three pillars: the literature, first-person research (autoethnography, phenomenology, ‘contemplative visualization’ for theory constitution) and second-person research comprising expert interviews. Inditation theory elucidates the relevance of issues such as problems and conflicts, by utilizing resistance to solving issues quickly and smoothly through the decision-making process of ‘systemic consensing’ introduced by Visotschnig and Schrotta (2005), and Rosenberg’s (2015) needs-based approach of ‘nonviolent communication’.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business | |||||||||
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences | |||||||||
| Depositing User: | Kamila Niekoraniec | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2025 13:33 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2025 13:53 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/15657 |
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