F5: Share Holder Value

Based on V) The Priority of Paradigms of a mature scientific community its paradigms can be determined with relative ease. The "rules" used by scientists who share a paradigm are not so easily determined. Some reasons for this are that scientists can disagree on the interpretation of a paradigm. The existence of a paradigm need not imply that any full set of rules exist. Also, scientists are often guided by tacit knowledge - knowledge acquired through practice and that cannot be articulated explicitly. Further, the attributes shared by a scientists#2 are not always readily apparent because scientists#2 keep their F5=agenda about the future they need to sustain their present position power secret until they feel they can get c3-acceptance with it, just as any entrepreneur does. In the resulting Share Holder Value paradigm, those who hold the shares, have the position power...

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