Applying the Pareto Principle
If you run a business, you must remember two things. 1. The Pareto principle: 80% of your profit comes from...
A Sustainability Limerick (?!) #1
There was a young lass who online bought clothes by the ton every time Her credit was healthy, and she...
What I Love
Is it not important that a person’s life is filled with love? It seems to me that love can be...
Autocritique and Reflexive Evaluation of the Research Philosophy
Post-modernist, interpretivist / hermeneutic scholars have concentrated on the interests, values, and biases served by researchers (Van de Ven, 2007)....
Phenomenology in Logistics and SCM Research
Although long the norm in anthropology, sociology, and healthcare, qualitative methods are still struggling for recognition in the disciplines of...
Research in Logistics/SCM
Dunn et al (1993) concluded that logistics, marketing, and operations research all risk underachievement if confined to a single philosophical...
A Philosophical Critique and Defense
Habermas (1985) maintained that societies depend on criticisms of their own tradition. It appears that positivists, despite post-modernists’ claims to...
Testing Research Logics
The following tables provide an approximate account of the logical options that were potentially applicable to this research design, and...