Essays on Holcomb

According to Weele (2009, p4), effective strategic purchasing is growing rapidly throughout because the organizations have realized it a potent avenue to achieve the company performance in short and long term. These includes attaining their strategic goals, improving the consumer satisfaction, improve the efficiency of the services rendered and many others. Hartmann & Blome (2010, p45) argues that the reason for such is because the quality of goods or raw materials in the organization enhances the organization’s performance. The cost of goods and service procured is also important in determining performance. Various theories are explaining the importance of the ...

The quote “the one who owns the information – owns the world”, which belongs to Nathan Rothschild, best describes how the world looks today. The leadership of owning the info belongs to the information research agencies, which collect and analyse information, and, of course, the news agencies. Or does it not? According to the data provided by The Statistics Portal Statista, there were 1,387 daily newspapers in America in 2014, comparing to 1,730 in 1985. Mitchell and Holcomb report, that in 2014 news industry of the United States generated almost 65 billion dollars of annual revenue, while Google ...

Developing descriptive statistics in research work by the researcher is subject to various ethical issues. Such ethical issues affect the validity and reliability of the statistical results. When developing the descriptive statistics, some of the methods of calculating the measures of central tendency and dispersion such as those for determining the standard deviation are very complicated. This is to mean that poor application of such methods leads to wrong measures. Such an act by a researcher amounts to ethical misconduct since he or she uses wrong methods to calculate the measures. In fact, the application of the wrong methods ...