Aim: Develop a methodological approach to reduce uncertainty of knowledge necessary for decision making in quick changing surroundings. Research methods: The research method is heuristic supported by the research programme in Lakatos’ sense, specially designed for these purposes based on the...

Aim: There exists an inequilibrium between the available quantity of goods and the level of consumption resulting in local economic polarisations and asymmetric capital concentrations. Replacements of real money with derivative instruments cause strong perturbations on capital markets. Consumer...

Global supply chains are a dominant theme in business academic literature. Most writers purport a holistic perspective. Our review of their literature found this untrue. Their focus on primary players excludes other relevant agents that make significant contributions to supply chain performance....

In philosophy of science, the demarcation problem verifies what is scientific using as a verification criterion 'scientific method'. In this paper, softer rule named 'selective demarcation' that groups problems around criterion of existing measure or minimum principle was used for management...