There has been a long, continuing debate over the value of IS and IT in producing business value and competitive advantage. For years, the “productivity paradox” — the fact that IT investments did not seem to produce commensurate productivity improvements — was used by “IT deniers” to indicate that the huge IT investments made by firms were excessive and relatively unproductive. Witness to this...

In his influential After Finitude. An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency (2008), Quentin Meillassoux argues that *Correlationism* (an umbrella-term encompassing most varieties Idealism) gives rise to an irresolvable paradox, called "the Paradox Arche-fossil", which is essentially a clash between philosophical principles and scientific findings. This paradox Correlationism then paves way for ...

Research examining the relationship between IT–business strategic alignment (hereafter referred to as alignment) and firm performance (hereafter referred to as performance) has produced apparently conflicting findings (i.e., an alignment paradox). To examine the alignment paradox, we conducted a meta-analysis that probed the interrelationships between alignment, performance, and context constru...

I. The Issues How technology affects work and pay has been an important topic in the study of labor markets and wage distribution. In this review article, we provide an overview of recent research in two particular areas: how technological change has affected wage and employment structures nationally, and how technological change has affected work at the establishment or plant level. With a few...

the distinction between primitive predication and common predication is applied to solve some problems in islamic philosophy, some of which are incorrect in our point of view. some of the problems contain paradoxes and some others include independent philosophical discussions: 1. stating about absolute non-existents, 2. problems of subjective existence, 3. liar paradox and russell’s paradox, 4....

Rising demand for food, fiber, and biofuels drives expanding irrigation withdrawals from surface water and groundwater. Irrigation efficiency and water savings have become watchwords in response to climate-induced hydrological variability, increasing freshwater demand for other uses including ecosystem water needs, and low economic productivity of irrigation compared to most other uses. We iden...

Sheng-Feng Shen,* Stephen T. Emlen, Walter D. Koenig and Dustin R. Rubenstein Abstract Ecology is a fundamental driving force for the evolutionary transition from solitary living to breeding cooperatively in groups. However, the fact that both benign and harsh, as well as stable and fluctuating, environments can favour the evolution of cooperative breeding behaviour constitutes a paradox of env...

The purpose of this paper is to develop an output oriented methodology for calculating productivity growth by using Malmquist productivity index (MPI) and two different data envelopment analysis (DEA) views (optimistic and pessimistic) simultaneously, and apply it to five Iranian Commercial Banks over the four time period (2009-2013). Consequently, we have proposed a new approach called the dou...

The paper examines the evaluation of scientific productivity. It analyzes the metrification of the evaluation of scientific production, as well as the historical construction, and current uses of scientific evaluation. It argues that this process contains a paradox: the more that metrics become impersonal, the less they are recognized by scientists. The study is divided into five sections: cont...