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Our ability to understand others is one of the most central parts
of human life, but explaining how this ability develops remains a
controversial issue, exercising psychologists and philosophers
alike. Within this literature the Paradox of False Belief
Understanding remains one of the main open challenges. Based on an
up to date overview of the empirical and theoretical literature,
this book highlights the significance of this paradox for our
understanding of the development of social cognition and provides a
new explanation of it in the form of the Situational Mental File
Account. Central features of the account are, firstly, identitfying
three distinct stages in the development of belief understanding
and, secondly, elaborating the role of both cognitive and
situational factors as well as their interaction in the development
of belief understanding. This account is also applied to the
related phenomenon of pretend play, demonstrating the potential for
a wider application of the account. This account generates both new
empirical predications and a framework for further theoretical
work, thereby providing a fruitful ground for further
interdisciplinary research in this area.
Foreword Among researchers in the business and management
disciplines, there is some kind of a common understanding that
research should provide models, concepts and solutions for
practical problems. In other words: research is practice-oriented
and, personally, I subscribe to this maxim. Still, sometimes, it is
important to pause for a moment and reflect upon one s own
activities. The present thesis is one of those comparatively few
pieces of research that do so by dealing with the scientific side
of research and by asking a number of questions that target at the
identification of the nature of a very recent subfield within
business and management, namely Supply Chain Management. In
particular, the author seeks to understand the processes that
characterize the evolution of Supply Chain Management research
throughout the past sixteen years and reflects upon avenues for
future research - feeling that SCM research seems to have come to a
crossroads. The systematic reprocessing of Supply Chain Management
literature and the methodologically sound approach are impressive
and enable Julia Wolf to contribute a valuable component to
scientific practice and debate in this area. Her work also
illustrates that, in terms of philosophical underpinnings, research
in Supply Chain Management is still at the very beginning and I
hope that this thesis gives rise to more work of similar kind."
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