TPTP Problem File: MGT049+1.p
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% File : MGT049+1 : TPTP v9.0.0. Released v2.4.0.
% Domain : Management (Organisation Theory)
% Problem : Structural position does not vary with its age
% Version : [Han98] axioms.
% English : An organization's structural position does not vary with its age.
% Refs : [Kam00] Kamps (2000), Email to G. Sutcliffe
% : [CH00] Carroll & Hannan (2000), The Demography of Corporation
% : [Han98] Hannan (1998), Rethinking Age Dependence in Organizati
% Source : [Kam00]
% Names : LEMMA 6 [Han98]
% Status : Theorem
% Rating : 0.00 v6.4.0, 0.04 v6.3.0, 0.12 v6.2.0, 0.08 v6.1.0, 0.10 v6.0.0, 0.13 v5.5.0, 0.07 v5.4.0, 0.11 v5.3.0, 0.15 v5.2.0, 0.10 v5.0.0, 0.00 v3.2.0, 0.09 v3.1.0, 0.00 v2.4.0
% Syntax : Number of formulae : 9 ( 0 unt; 0 def)
% Number of atoms : 26 ( 7 equ)
% Maximal formula atoms : 5 ( 2 avg)
% Number of connectives : 18 ( 1 ~; 4 |; 4 &)
% ( 3 <=>; 6 =>; 0 <=; 0 <~>)
% Maximal formula depth : 7 ( 5 avg)
% Maximal term depth : 2 ( 1 avg)
% Number of predicates : 6 ( 5 usr; 0 prp; 1-2 aty)
% Number of functors : 3 ( 3 usr; 0 con; 2-2 aty)
% Number of variables : 22 ( 22 !; 0 ?)
% SPC : FOF_THM_RFO_SEQ
% Comments : See MGT042+1.p for the mnemonic names.
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include('Axioms/MGT001+0.ax').
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%----Problem Axioms
%----Improved ties with external actors enhance an organization's position.
fof(assumption_6,axiom,
! [X,T0,T] :
( organization(X)
=> ( ( greater(external_ties(X,T),external_ties(X,T0))
=> greater(position(X,T),position(X,T0)) )
& ( external_ties(X,T) = external_ties(X,T0)
=> position(X,T) = position(X,T0) ) ) ) ).
%----The quality of an organization's external ties does not vary with
%----its age (contra assumption 8).
fof(assumption_11,axiom,
! [X,T0,T] :
( organization(X)
=> external_ties(X,T) = external_ties(X,T0) ) ).
%----Problem theorems
%----An organization's structural position does not vary with its age.
%----From A6 and A11 (text says A6 and A9!; no inequalities needed).
fof(lemma_6,conjecture,
! [X,T0,T] :
( ( organization(X)
& greater(age(X,T),age(X,T0)) )
=> position(X,T) = position(X,T0) ) ).
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