The mandarins of the nuclear establishment remain enthralled by elaborate deterrence theories premised on the notion that the ultimate defense against a variety of military threats is a bristling nuclear arsenal.
All patient-centered deontological theories are properly characterized as theories premised on people's rights.
The theory premised on the fact that in 59 precincts in African American neighbourhoods, Romney did not receive a single vote.
Agency theory holds to the premise of rational choice theory that individuals are self-interested utility maximizers, but finds the organizational theory premise, that organizations function efficiently, is problematic.
Transaction cost theory holds to the premise of organizational theory that organizational rationality dictates that organizations are efficiently designed means/ends mechanisms, in some cases more efficient than markets, and finds the rational choice theory premise of individual self-interested utility maximization is problematic under conditions of uncertainty and asset specificity.
It also examines the key normative benchmarking theory premise that firm capabilities associated with sustained financial performance can be identified and that a firm's capability gaps, defined herein as the capability gaps between the firm and the selected benchmark firms (e.g., Camp, 1995), explain its financial performance.
To accept the theory's premises, one had to abandon much of Aristotelian natural philosophy and develop a new explanation for why heavy bodies fall to a moving Earth.
Millennia of booze and drug abuse, hundreds of conflicting religions and cults and superstitions and alternative medicines and conspiracy theories, the premise of the Matrix franchise, the internet, sunglasses, video games and the powerfully convincing anti-intellectualism of Michael Gove.
Thus, such representationalist theories challenge premise P2 of Horgan and Tienson's argument.
This article discusses the theory and premises underlying SFP, describes the step-by-step process and illustrates its effects on the design, culture, leadership and performance of a Hewlett Packard business unit that utilized SFP to solve strategic and organizational problems that were undermining its performance.
The fakery begins with the theory's premise: that the President could, if he wanted to, reduce the price of oil.
