Purpose: The role of the purchasing function is evolving towards business area strategic leadership, which currently gaining particular importance in innovation management. However, application Industry 4.0 technologies processes supply chains early stages its development. main purpose paper to explore how a digital platform transforms value proposition and buyer-supplier relationship Design/Me...

Orientation: The South African water board sector plays an essential role in providing and basic sanitary needs to the country. Yet faces drastic talent shortages required deliver its service mandate.Research purpose: primary purpose of this study was develop employee value proposition (EVP) framework for sector.Motivation study: Research on EVPs within public is scarce. Employee propositions a...

This paper adds to the overconfidence literature by specifically considering the differential nature of information and its use by different classes of investors. The literature suggests that overconfidence is a major determinant of stock trading volume. We postulate that private investors are more prone to overconfidence bias as compared to institutional investors. This implies that turnover i...

It is argued that the pronouns ‘she’ and ‘he’ are disguised complex demonstratives of the form ‘that female/male’. Three theories of complex demonstratives are examined and shown to be committed to the view that ‘s/he’ turns out to be an empty term when used to refer to a hermaphrodite. A fourth theory of complex demonstratives, one that is hermaphrodite friendly, is proposed. It maintains that...

Epistemic modals relativize the truth value of a proposition to some body of knowledge. It is thus reasonable to consider that their truth conditions concern at least as much the attitude of the speaker(s) towards the proposition as the content of the proposition itself. Epistemic modals can be seen as evidential comments on propositions (von Fintel and Gillies 2007). Veltman (1996), Groenendij...

According to radical probabilism, all factual claims are merely probabilistic in character. Throughout the centuries this view has been criticized on the grounds that it triggers an infinite regress: if every claim is probabilistic, then the proposition that something is probable is itself only probable, and so on. An endless hierarchy of probabilities seems to emerge and, as a result, the prob...