Three core imperatives are essential for modern businesses and organizations: seamless integration of customer and operational processes, agility, and the ability to change. These imperatives are thus relevant in view of successfully executing strategic choices, but all too often not satisfied. Businesses and organizations can be viewed as complex adaptive socio-technical systems. Two fundament...

The article is devoted to the definition of strategic imperatives for development logistics infrastructure Ukraine in conditions formation a new economic model – paradigm closed cycle economy. It substantiated that effective functioning economy any country impossible without creation proper as factor aggregate demand, environment which movement goods. In general, high level provides following p...

In this paper I will develop a view about the semantics of imperatives, which I term Modal Noncognitivism, on which imperatives might be said to have truth conditions (dispositionally, anyway), but on which it does not make sense to see them as expressing propositions (hence does not make sense to ascribe to them truth or falsity). This view stands against “Cognitivist” accounts of the semantic...

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the function of imperatives in dialogue. In particular, the focus is on the use of logically complex imperatives (e.g., ‘Say hello to John, if you meet him’) and temporal reference in imperatives (e.g., ‘Open the bottle of champagne at midnight’). Two specific problems involving logically complex and temporally referring imperatives are introdu...

American think tanks play important roles in its foreign policy making and their narratives about U.S.-China relations have great chances to influence or being factored into Biden administration’s China policies. This article explores tanks’ advocating managing strategic competition coordinating on global governance imperatives. It argues that when political discourse changes these will help ma...

The paper provides a critical review of the development of information center through different phases, transformation of the information center in response to the inter-disciplinary imperatives of information and knowledge management, IT imperatives, trends in the areas of content, services, management, and personnel, and future possibilities and prospects. An extensive review of literature wa...

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the use of logically complex imperatives, in particular, imperatives of the form`Do A1 or A2' and`Do A, if B'. I argue for an analysis of imperatives in terms of Classical Logic which takes into account the innuence of background information on imperatives. I show that by doing so one can avoid some counter-intuitive results which have been ass...

Substate conflict is the source tremendous human suffering and financial burden worldwide. Research recently published in Science claims to have uncovered predictable patterns in insurgent and terrorist attacks: like various unrelated physical phenomena, the rate of learning by insurgents (and thus rate of conflict escalation) follows a predictable power law process. Governments afflicted by in...

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the function of imperatives in dialogue. In particular, the focus is on the use of logically complex imperatives (e.g., ‘Say hello to John, if you meet him’) and temporal reference in imperatives (e.g., ‘Open the bottle of champagne at midnight’). Two specific problems involving logically complex and temporally referring imperatives are introdu...