The pharmaceutical industry is key to the survival of human race, but equally becoming increasingly susceptible global disruptions. In Nigeria, records have shown that plagued with several problems, inclusive low innovation performance, which may be due lack strategic flexibility in face increasing environment turbulence and intense competition. This study examined effect on performance quoted ...

The study aims to shed some light on pedagogical and learning issues that have cropped up during the pandemic for transitioning from traditional classrooms entirely virtual learning. reflects how paradigm shift can directly or indirectly affect soft skills of all parties involved in success failure an educational system. An in-depth focus group discussion methodology was used collect informatio...

This paper explores the neglected theory of entrepreneurial profi t proposed by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. Although historians of thought often dismiss Böhm-Bawerk’s writings on this topic, we argue that he did develop a coherent theory of entrepreneurial decision making and profi t distinct from his theory of interest. We fi rst discuss Böhm-Bawerk’s ideas about futurity, uncertainty, and expectat...

In capturing future-time reference, semantic theory such as DRT (Kamp & Reyle 1993) relies on the representation of tense and hence has a difficulty with reconciling the reference of the temporal adverbial and the tense in (3) and (4). In order to capture the futurity of ‘plays’ and ‘is playing’ (traditionally called ‘tenseless future’ and ‘futurative progressive’ respectively), I propose to us...

The antique Mills Futurity slot machine has two unusual features. First, if a player loses 10 times in a row, the 10 lost coins are returned. Second, the payout distribution varies from coup to coup in a manner that is nonrandom and periodic with period 10. It follows that the machine is driven by a 100-state irreducible period-10 Markov chain. Here we evaluate the stationary distribution of th...

One in five women are childless at midlife, and for an estimated 90 percent of these women, childlessness is not actively chosen. In this article, we explore how solo-living professional navigate the ‘balanced mother ideal’ over their fertile years what means organizations organization studies. Drawing on biographical narrative interview data from UK, argue that identifications with balanced id...

This article begins by outlining some dominant narratives that produce ageism socially constructing older age as a time of linear decline, social dependency, isolation and intergenerational conflict. It then concentrates on recent work elder lesbian feminist performance company Split Britches: Ruff (2012), Unexploded Ordnances (2018), What Tammy Needs to Know about Getting Old Having Sex (2013)...

Abstract This paper explores the particular role of narrative in developing futures literacy. As literacy denotes ability to express and absorb meaning through language, enabling individuals parse information relate others, then also needs draw on insights embrace its full emancipatory potential. We set out importance (1) framing, (2) shaping, (3) critiquing world-building techniques that form ...

What might it take to reimagine the futures of geographical thought on an Earth whose geological disjunctures and catastrophic dynamics have radically upended progressive temporality that once made ‘the future’ a modern article faith matter concern? What, in other words, is future those practices animated by metamorphic forces Earth? Seeking inhabit problem-space these questions generate, this ...

Authors Competitive Strategy Measures Information Systems Measures Strategic Fit of IS Measures Insights for Measuring Strategic Fit of IS Utility for Measuring Strategic Fit of IS Chan et al. (1997) • Respondents rate how well they agree to statements from Venkatraman’s (1989b) 6-dimension business strategic orientation (STROBE) measure of aggressiveness, analysis, defensiveness, futurity, pro...