Exploring the Metaphor of Connectivity: Attributes, Dimensions and Duality
探讨了“连通性”作为隐喻在社会现象中的适用性，分析了其潜在性、时间间歇性、行动者能动性和不可知的普遍性等属性，并揭示了连接与断开背后的理论二元性及其在多个维度上的表现，对管理实践和研究有启示。
The term `connectivity' has wide usage as a technical term describing connections between electronic devices. Increasingly, however, the concept of connectivity is being used as a metaphor for intra- and inter-organizational interactions. This article explores some of the attributes that make the metaphor of connectivity applicable to social phenomena, namely latent potentiality, temporal intermittency, actor agency and unknowable pervasiveness. Furthermore, it identifies how `connects' and `disconnects' suggest an underlying theoretical duality , which is illustrated across multiple dimensions of connectivity, including: geo-physical, technical, interpersonal, group, organizational, networks, economic, cultural, political and philosophical. Implications for management and research are discussed.