This paper introduces Richard Rorty’s notion of the liberal ironist and his vision of a liberal utopia and explores the implications of these for philosophical questions concerning morality, as well as morality in general. Rorty’s assertions of the contingency of language, society and self are explored. Under the contingency of language, the figure of the ironist is defined, and Rorty’s concept...

The contingency table arises in nearly every application of statistics. However, even the basic problem of testing independence is not totally resolved. More than thirty–five years ago, Lancaster (1961) proposed using the mid p–value for testing independence in a contingency table. The mid p–value is defined as half the conditional probability of the observed statistic plus the conditional prob...

The purpose of this research is to verify interdependencies among service innovation, structural autonomy, performance measurement systems, and organizational outcomes in a new context. relationships between these variables that structure design have been studied for several decades, but it necessary the validity those geographical contexts periods. Contingency theory was selected framework bec...

in spite of importance of it deployment, nowadays in many organizations we are witness of appearing problems related to dissatisfaction of business needs due to high investment in the field of it. the fervent debate concerning it productivity–or lack of such productivity- named productivity paradox persuade us to survey relationship between it–business alignment and business performance. the pu...

Purpose This study aims to analyze how various contingencies within the contingency theory influence entrepreneurial orientation (EO) elements and performance of retail franchisees in a South Pacific Island nation. Design/methodology/approach employs quantitative approach data collection from 203 managers total 89 franchise outlets. Convenience snowball sampling techniques were used with analys...

This article explores the IT offshore outsourcing phenomena and discusses the predictors of firm’s adoption level of offshoring practice. The authors draw on transaction cost economics, culture theories, integrated social contract theory, and institutional theory to examine the offshore outsourcing impetuses and investigate the related research issues. The multitheoretic lens highlights the int...