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Semar, Wolfgang. "Master of Science in Business Administration − Major Information and Data Management." Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis 71, no. 5-6 (October 6, 2020): 275–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/iwp-2020-2107.
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Chen, Hsueh-hua, Tzu-heng Chiu, and Jung-Wei Fan. "Educating Knowledge Management Professionals in the Era of Knowledge Economy." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 01, no. 02 (September 2002): 91–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649202000418.
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The era of knowledge economy has arrived, and knowledge has become a key resource for enterprises. How to keep creating and using new knowledge has become an important concern for modern business administration. How to manage knowledge efficiently and effectively will become a crucial issue in future. However, owing to differences in educational backgrounds, people may have different perspectives on knowledge management (KM), and so the effectiveness of KM may not be maximized owing to lack of integration. In view of this, the Departments of Library and Information Science, Business Administration, Information Management, and Computer Science and Information Engineering of the National Taiwan University put together a "KM Curriculum Program" that seeks to educate and train all-round KM professionals. This paper begins with the proposition that KM will be the focus of business administration in the 21st century, followed by the need to train interdisciplinary KM professionals and create channels for such training. Lastly, it takes "KM Curriculum Program, NTU" as a sample to explain the ideas behind its education and training. Further, by sharing experiences, we hope to motivate other colleges and universities to draw up similar programs to train skilled KM professionals and to improve Taiwan's competitiveness in the business world.
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Oulanov, Alexei. "Business administration students' perception of usability of the Business Source Premier database." Electronic Library 26, no. 4 (August 8, 2008): 505–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02640470810893756.
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PurposeThe current article is a research study examining user perception of the usability of an online information system used by business administration students. The online database which it aims to examine is Business Source Premier, which is incorporated in a larger platform of databases called EBSCO. The findings of this research will help with the efficient management of this information service as well as improve the application of this database in an academic library setting.Design/methodology/approachConvenience sampling procedure was used for recruiting participants. The entire class of 22 students taught at Medgar Evers College of CUNY participated in this survey. Users evaluated this database using Oulanov's usability tool, which entails the following eight criteria: Affect, Adaptability, Control, Helpfulness, Efficiency, User Effort, Measures of Effectiveness, and Retrieval Features.FindingsBusiness Source Premier was rated highest in terms of efficiency. Some improvement might be necessary to increase the helpfulness of the system. User effort is another usability criterion that scored lower than the others. Other usability components, including affect, adaptability, control, measures of effectiveness, and retrieval features, were rated highly. The overall performance of Business Source Premier is high and possible paths for improvement are likewise offered.Originality/valueThis case study provided usability assessment of an online business information system used by business administration students, identifying its strong and weak points. This investigation showed that Business Source Premier is efficient and effective tool for conducting research in the field of business administration.
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Candler, Gaylord George, and John Paul Randle. "Market failure as ignored determinant of the choice between public and business administration." Cadernos EBAPE.BR 15, no. 4 (December 2017): 930–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1679-395155026.
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Abstract In the epistemology of administrative science, one of many important dimensions has been the different subfields of the study of administration. Perhaps the biggest, longest running ‘turf’ battle between these different areas of administrative knowledge is that between public and business administration. This is a controversy that goes back at least to Adam Smith, with his specific limitation of the role of ‘the sovereign’ (government, or public administration) to justice, defense, and public works. In limiting government to these areas, note that Smith was also implicitly asserting that these were market, or ‘invisible hand’ failures: areas where the pursuit of self-interest would not yield the good of society, the specific moral justification Smith identified for market exchange. Contemporary discussions of the relative role of market and state are generally framed in terms of the role of the State, with market provision the default option. We will argue that even discussions of the role of the State can best be assessed through the concept of market failure. The nine broad types of market failure discussed include institutions, public goods, monopoly, asymmetric information, externalities, substantive issues, principal/agent problems, irrationality, and the implications of ‘creative destruction’.
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Della Valle, Fabio, and Miquel Oliver. "Blockchain-Based Information Management for Supply Chain Data-Platforms." Applied Sciences 11, no. 17 (September 2, 2021): 8161. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11178161.
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Performance measurement and information management are vital assets for supply chain management. In this study, we analyzed the effective combination between blockchain technologies and supply chain management processes. We conducted eighteen interviews with international experts from different areas and analyzed the collected data following a grounded theory approach. We have identified five main categories in this area including accounting and administration, trust, data platform, interoperability, and disintermediation. The main findings concluded with a set of seven statements as key elements to summarize how blockchain-based supply chains fit in with supplier relationship management processes and financial business units for international trade. The seven statements also recommend future research activities and trajectories.
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Johnston, Judy. "Assessing Government’s Performance Management Capability: the Case of the Australian Electricity Industry." International Review of Administrative Sciences 70, no. 1 (March 2004): 123–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852304041235.
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When governments open up opportunities for private investment in traditional public sector areas, it is increasingly clear that a useful range of performance management information needs to be available to both government and business. Government needs to know how it is performing, comparatively, within and beyond its own domain, for the development of public policy and productivity enhancement. Business needs to know, understand and monitor the industry environment in which investment is contemplated or has already taken place. Performance measurement and monitoring is especially important where governments wish to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) to their shores. Whether governments manage performance and information well or are still constrained by bureaucratic and political thinking is still at issue. Using the example of the contrived national electricity market in Australia, this article, through literature and document review, examines the likely value to government and business of performance information, now available in the public domain. First, the article considers some of the changes to the Australian electricity industry. Second, specific performance indicators relevant to the national electricity market are examined in terms of their utility for government and business decision-making. Third, the impact of the political environment on performance management information is explored. The article concludes that while some important quantitative performance management information is available in a rational sense, other more political, qualitative indicators also need to be taken into account.
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Jesenko, Berndt, and Christian Schlögl. "The effect of web of science subject categories on clustering: the case of data-driven methods in business and economic sciences." Scientometrics 126, no. 8 (June 23, 2021): 6785–801. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04060-4.
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AbstractThe primary goal of this article is to identify the research fronts on the application of data-driven methods in business and economics. For this purpose, the research literature of the business and economic sciences Subject Categories from the Web of Science is mapped using BibExcel and VOSviewer. Since the assignment to subject categories is done at the journal level and since a journal is often assigned to several subject categories in Web of Science, two mappings are performed: one without considering multiple assignments (broad view) and one considering only those (articles from) journals that have been assigned exclusively to the business and economic sciences subject categories and no others (narrow view). A further aim of this article is therefore to identify differences in the two mappings. Surprisingly, engineering sciences play a major role in the broad mapping, in addition to the economic sciences. In the narrow mapping, however, only the following clusters with a clear business-management focus emerge: (i) Data-driven methods in management in general and data-driven supply chain management in particular, (ii) Data-driven operations research analyses with different business administration/management focuses, (iii) Data-driven methods and processes in economics and finance, and (iv) Data-driven methods in Information Systems. One limitation of the narrow mapping is that many relevant documents are not covered since the journals in which they appear are assigned to multiple subject categories in WoS. The paper comes to the conclusion that the multiple assignments of subject categories in Web of Science may lead to massive changes in the results. Adjacent subject areas—in this specific case the application of data-driven methods in engineering and more mathematically oriented contributions in economics (econometrics) are considered in the broad mapping (not excluding subject categories from neighbouring disciplines) and are even over-represented compared to the core areas of business and economics. If a mapping should only consider the core aspects of particular research fields, it is shown in this use case that the exclusion of Web of Science-subject categories that do not belong to the core areas due to multiple assignments (narrow view), may be a valuable alternative. Finally, it depends on the reader to decide which mapping is more beneficial to them.
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Song, Xinjian. "Implementation of Centralized Administration and Management of Funds in Enterprise Groups." Proceedings of Business and Economic Studies 4, no. 4 (August 27, 2021): 166–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.26689/pbes.v4i4.2407.
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Enterprise groups are characterized by multiple levels of enterprises with large scales of assets and complex business models. In the process of administration and management of funds, there are often some problems, such as unreasonable internal funds allocation, high financing costs, and flawed funds control. Centralized fund management is a tool for the overall allocation of intra-group funds and the coordinated management of group investment and financing. It can optimize the resource allocation of enterprise groups and reduce financing costs as well as capital risks. By selecting centralized fund management, establishing control and early warning system, as well as building information system and other steps, enterprise groups can better implement centralized fund management and improve their capital control.
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Ranjan, Jayanthi. "Knowledge Management in Business Schools." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 07, no. 01 (March 2008): 55–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649208001919.
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Business schools have been using information for years to improve the efficiency of academic services and effectiveness of academic programs. As more trustees, administrators, faculty, parents, students have begun to seek better outcomes, not surprisingly these schools are investing in technology. But these schools are finding that technology implementation does not necessarily improve decision-making nor does it necessarily improve outcomes and decision-making. This paves the way to recognise the urgent need for Knowledge Management (KM) which is a key asset. A big and major crucial feature of business schools is that they are made up of a number of nested systems. In analytical terms, this can also be described as levels or units. These levels range from faculty, student, research, administration, academics and placement. The reports in business schools are numerous as the requirement of reports from level to level is difficult. Analytical needs differ, but are present at every level of the system. A robust KM system must reflect the information needs of all levels. In particular, data must be gathered at all levels to the user in a fine-grained manner. This paper explores the application KM to business schools and in particular in support of the sharing of knowledge resources. This paper considers the critical role played by the "sharing of knowledge resources" in one of top business schools, Test Business School — TBS (pseudonym is used to mask the institution name) in India.
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Tayauova, Gulzhanat. "EDITORIAL." New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences 6, no. 8 (December 31, 2019): I. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v6i8.4568.
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It is with great honor that we edit the proceedings of “7th Global Conference on Business, Economics, Management and Tourism (BEMTUR-2019)”, Lara – Antalya, Turkey, Turkey, 18-20 October 2019.
As the guest editors of this issue, we are glad to have received a variety of articles focusing on Accounting, International Finance, Advertising Management, Labor Economics, Business & Economics, Labor Relations & Human Resource Management, Business Ethics, Law and Economics, Business Intelligence, Management Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Management Science, Business Law, Market Structure and Pricing, Business Performance Management, Marketing Research and Strategy, Business Statistics, Marketing Theory and Applications, Change Management Operations Research, Communications Management, Organizational Behavior & Theory, Comparative Economic Systems, Organizational Communication, Consumer Behavior, Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles, Corporate Finance and Governance, Product Management, Corporate Governance, Production and Organizations, Cost Management, Production/Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Public Administration and Small Business Entrepreneurship, Development Planning and Policy, Public Choice, Economic Development, Public Economics and Finance, Economic Methodology, Public Relations, Economic Policy, Public Responsibility and Ethics, E-Business, Regulatory Economics, E- Marketing, Resource Management, Economic Systems, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management Policy, Finance & Investment, Stress Management, Financial Economics, Supply Change Management, Global Business, Systems Management, Global Marketing, Systems Thinking, Growth; Aggregate Productivity, Taxes (related areas of taxes), Household Behavior and Family Economics, Technological Change; Research and Development, Human Resource, Technology & Innovation, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Time Management, Information Systems, Total Quality Management, Information Technology Management, Travel/Transportation/Tourism, International Business, Welfare Economics, International Economics etc. Furthermore, the conference is getting more international each year, which is an indicator that it is getting worldwide known and recognized. Scholars from all over the world contributed to the conference. Special thanks are to all the reviewers, the members of the international editorial board, the publisher, and those involved in technical processes. We would like to thank all who contributed to in every process to make this issue actualized. A total of 29 full papers or abstracts were submitted for this conference and each paper has been peer reviewed by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total of 5 high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication.
I hope that you will enjoy reading the papers.
Best Regards
Guest Editors
Prof. Dr. Gulzhanat Tayauova, Almaty Management University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Editorial Assistant
Zeynep Genc, PhD. Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Mas-Tur, Alicia, Sascha Kraus, Mario Brandtner, Ralf Ewert, and Wolfgang Kürsten. "Advances in management research: a bibliometric overview of the Review of Managerial Science." Review of Managerial Science 14, no. 5 (August 3, 2020): 933–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11846-020-00406-z.
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Abstract The Review of Managerial Science (RMS) is a leading international journal that publishes major advances related to business administration and management. The journal was launched in April 2007 and publishes eight issues per year (from 2021 onwards). The scope of RMS encompasses, but is not limited to, the functional areas of operations (such as production, operations management, and marketing), management (such as human resources management, strategic management, and organizational theory), information systems and their interrelations with capital markets (such as accounting, auditing, finance, and taxation), as well as questions of business strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and corporate governance. This study offers a bibliometric overview of the publication and citation structure of RMS from its inception in 2007 until 2020 in terms of topics, authors, institutions, and countries, thereby offering a comprehensive overview of the history of the journal so far. All the data for the study are from the Web of Science Core Collection database. To complement this analysis, VOSviewer software provides graphical analysis. The analysis is based on several bibliometric techniques such as co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling.
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Bugrov, Volodymyr, Maksym W. Sitnicki, and Oleh Serbin. "Strategic management of creative industries: A case study of university information institutions." Problems and Perspectives in Management 19, no. 2 (July 5, 2021): 453–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.19(2).2021.36.
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The purpose of this paper is to summarize the experience of leading university libraries in attracting and using creative industries implementating strategic management. The study was conducted taking into account the previous experience by analyzing and systematizing the regulatory framework, information, and analytical materials on this issue, and conducting personal interviews with librarians. The results and conclusions were obtained on the example of libraries of seven higher educational institutions of Ukraine, which are included in the QS World University Rankings and the Times Higher Education.The paper illustrates an extremely unsatisfactory financial situation and insufficient funding for university libraries. But even in such conditions, they are transformed into informational institutions, which not only provide users with a comfortable educational space but also produce innovative information resources and implement creative projects. The most significant projects are analyzed. All seven libraries have development strategies in which their mission is formalized. In three strategies there are no quantitative guidelines for development and, accordingly, the timing of their achievement. In addition, three strategies do not have the understanding of the need for business activities, and their key business processes are not clearly defined. Another three university libraries lack significant international creative projects. Instead, all seven university libraries recognize the need for creative industries and successfully implement creative projects of national importance.The study emphasizes the need to apply a model of strategic management of creative industries on the example of university libraries. AcknowledgmentThis scientific paper published with support by British Council’s ‘Creative Spark: Higher Education Enterprise Programme’, project № 5742783597 – the ‘National Сentre for Сreative Entrepreneurship Development’ (NCCE).
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Bektas, Prof Dr Cetin. "EDITORIAL." New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences 6, no. 3 (September 18, 2019): I. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v6i3.4578.
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It is with great honor that we edit the proceedings of “8th World Conference on Business, Economics and Management (BEM-2019)”, Grand Park Lara Hotel Convention Center, Antalya, Turkey, 26-28 April 2019. This privileged scientific event has contributed to the field of ELT for the eight year.
As the guest editors of this issue, we are glad to have received a variety of articles focusing on Accounting, International Finance, Advertising Management, Labor Economics, Business & Economics, Labor Relations & Human Resource Management, Business Ethics, Law and Economics, Business Intelligence, Management Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Management Science, Business Law, Market Structure and Pricing, Business Performance Management, Marketing Research and Strategy, Business Statistics, Marketing Theory and Applications, Change Managementi Operations Research, Communications Management, Organizational Behavior & Theory, Comparative Economic Systems, Organizational Communication, Consumer Behavior, Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles, Corporate Finance and Governance, Product Management, Corporate Governance, Production and Organizations, Cost Management, Production/Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Public Administration and Small Business Entrepreneurship, Development Planning and Policy, Public Choice, Economic Development, Public Economics and Finance, Economic Methodology, Public Relations, Economic Policy, Public Responsibility and Ethics, E-Bussiness, Regulatory Economics, E- Marketing, Resource Management, Economic Systems, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management Policy, Finance & Investment, Stress Management, Financial Economics, Supply Change Management, Global Business, Systems Management, Global Marketing, Systems Thinking, Growth; Aggregate Productivity, Taxes (related areas of taxes), Household Behavior and Family Economics, Technological Change; Research and Development, Human Resource, Technology & Innovation, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Time Management, Information Systems, Total Quality Management, Information Technology Management, Travel/Transportation/Tourism, International Business, Welfare Economics, International Economics etc. Furthermore, the conference is getting more international each year, which is an indicator that it is getting worldwide known and recognized. Scholars from all over the world contributed to the conference. Special thanks are to all the reviewers, the members of the international editorial board, the publisher, and those involved in technical processes. We would like to thank all who contributed to in every process to make this issue actualized. A total of 45 full papers or abstracts were submitted for this conference and each paper has been peer reviewed by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total of 12 high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication.
I hope that you will enjoy reading the papers.
Best Regards
Guest Editors
Prof. Dr. Cetin Bektas, Gaziosmanpasa University, Turkey
Editorial Assistant
Zeynep Genc, Phd. Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul, Turkey
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IACOB, Dr Andreea Iluzia. "Message from Editor." Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues 6, no. 1 (October 25, 2016): 01. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjbem.v6i1.1138.
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Dear Readers,It is the great honor for us to publish sixth volume of Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues.Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues is an international, multi-disciplinary, peer-refereed journal which aims to provide a global platform for professionals working in the field of business, economics, management, accounting, marketing, banking and finance and scholars and researchers to share their theoretical, empirical and practical knowledge on current issues in the area of business, economics and management.The journal welcomes original empirical investigations and comprehensive literature review articles. The scope of Global the journal includes, but is not limited to; Accounting, Advertising Management, Business and Economics, Business Ethics, Business Intelligence, Business Information Systems, Business Law, International Finance, Labor Economics, Labor Relations and Human Resource Managemen, Law and Economics, Management Information Systems, Business Law, Corporate Finance and Governance, Corporate Governance, Cost Management, Management Science, Market Structure and Pricing, Marketing Research and Strategy, Marketing Theory and Applications, Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Theory, Organizational Communication, Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles, Product Management, Decision Sciences, Development Planning and Policy, Economic Development, Economic Methodology, Economic Policy, Production and Organizations, Production/Operations Management, Public Administration and Small Business Entrepreneurship, Public Choice, Public Economics and Finance, Public Relations, Public Responsibility and Ethics, Regulatory Economics, Resource Management, Strategic Management, Strategic Management Policy, Stress Management, Supply Change Management, Systems Thinking, E-Bussiness and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.Financial performance, organizational climate, service quality and insurance education issues have been included into this issue. The topics of the next issue will be different. You can make sure that we will be trying to serve you with our journal with a rich knowledge in which different kinds of topics are discussed in 2016 Volume.A total number of eleven (11) manuscripts were submitted for this issue and each paper has been subjected to double-blind peer review process by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total number of five (5) high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication. We present many thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue.Best regards, Prof. Dr. Andreea Iluzia Iacob Editor – in Chief
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Martin, Lawrence L., and Karun K. Singh. "Using Government Performance Management Data to Identify New Business Opportunities: Examples from Government Services Outsourcing in the United States." International Review of Administrative Sciences 70, no. 1 (March 2004): 65–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852304041231.
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This article describes how the private sector can utilize government performance management data to identify business opportunities. Governments around the world today are making increased use of outsourcing, performance management and performance budgeting. Utilizing readily available data that can often be accessed via the World Wide Web, private sector businesses can identify current business opportunities in terms of what services governments are outsourcing, in what amounts and at what costs. Additionally, potential future business opportunities can be identified in terms of what services governments are currently providing in-house, at what costs and with what results. Armed with this information, private sector businesses can readily identify markets for their goods and services.
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de Alfonso, Carlos, Miguel Caballer, José V. Carrión, and Vicente Hernández. "gCitizen: A Grid Middleware for a Transparent Management of the Information about Citizens in the Public Administration." Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research 2, no. 1 (April 1, 2007): 18–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jtaer2010003.
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This paper proposes the Grid technology as an integration method of information, existing procedures and resources in the Public Administration. The exposed work supposes, from the point of view of the electronic government, an advance of future trends by means of the usage of Grid technology. On the other hand, from the perspective of Grid technology, the electronic government opens a non-evident field of application for this emergent paradigm of distributed computing. This paper explains gCitizen, which is a Grid middleware based on the GT4 components and WSRF implementation (which are the state-of-the-art in middleware for Grid computing), incorporating new protocols and services which cover the requirements for the integration purposes in the eGovernment frameworks. The system architecture has been designed to enable using the services deployed without a specific a priori knowledge of them. The gCitizen middleware also defines a data model to provide interoperability in the exchange of the information among the different gCitizen services.
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Eigeles, Dan. "Intelligent authentication, authorization, and administration (I3A)." Information Management & Computer Security 13, no. 5 (December 2005): 419–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09685220510627296.
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Eigeles, Dan. "Intelligent authentication, authorization, and administration (I3A)." Information Management & Computer Security 14, no. 1 (January 2006): 5–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09685220610648346.
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IACOB, Dr Andreea Iluzia. "Message from Editor." Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues 6, no. 2 (November 4, 2016): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjbem.v6i2.1638.
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Dear Readers,It is the great honor for us to publish sixth volume, second issue of Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues.Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues is an international, multi-disciplinary, peer-refereed journal which aims to provide a global platform for professionals working in the field of business, economics, management, accounting, marketing, banking and finance and scholars and researchers to share their theoretical, empirical and practical knowledge on current issues in the area of business, economics and management.The journal welcomes original empirical investigations and comprehensive literature review articles. The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to; Accounting, Advertising Management, Business and Economics, Business Ethics, Business Law, International Finance, Labor Economics, Labor Relations and Human Resource Managemen, Law and Economics, Management Information Systems, Business Law, Corporate Finance and Governance, Management Science, Market Structure and Pricing, Marketing Research and Strategy, Marketing Theory and Applications, Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Theory, Organizational Communication, Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles, Product Management, Decision Sciences, Development Planning and Policy, Economic Development, Economic Methodology, Economic Policy, Production and Organizations, Production/Operations Management, Public Administration and Small Business Entrepreneurship, Public Choice, Public Economics and Finance, Public Relations, Resource Management, Strategic Management, Strategic Management Policy, Stress Management, Supply Change Management, E-Bussiness and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.Many authors from different countries have contributed and current and comprehensive issues from the fields of business, economics and management are included in this issue. Job satisfaction, green marketing, human resource management and security are some examples of the topics. The topics of the next issue will be different. You can make sure that we will be trying to serve you with our journal with a rich knowledge in which different kinds of topics are discussed in 2016 Volume.A total number of forty-nine (49) manuscripts were submitted for this issue and each paper has been subjected to double-blind peer review process by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total number of twenty-four (24) high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication.We present many thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue.Best regards,Prof. Dr. Andreea Iluzia Iacob Editor – in Chief
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Milosavljevic, Gordana, Goran Sladic, Branko Milosavljevic, Miroslav Zaric, Stevan Gostojic, and Jelena Slivka. "Context-sensitive constraints for access control of business processes." Computer Science and Information Systems 15, no. 1 (2018): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/csis160628037m.
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Workflow management systems (WfMS) are used to automate and facilitate business processes of an enterprise. To simplify the administration, it is a common practice in many WfMS solutions to allocate a role to perform each activity of the process and then assign one or more users to each role. Typically, access control for WfMS is role-based with a support of constraints on users and roles. However, merely using role and constraints concepts can hardly satisfy modern access control requirements of a contemporary enterprise. Permissions should not solely depend on common static and dynamic principles, but they must be influenced by the context in which the access is requested. In this paper, we focus on the definition and enforcement of the context-sensitive constraints for workflow systems. We extended the common role-based constraints listed in literature with context-sensitive information and workflow specific components. Also, we propose a mechanism for enforcing such constraints within WfMS.
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Riadi, Slamet, and Erdiyansyah. "Collaborative governance in handling natural and non-natural disasters based on the perspective of public administration: Evidence from Indonesia." Problems and Perspectives in Management 19, no. 2 (July 5, 2021): 468–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.19(2).2021.37.
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Both natural and non-natural disasters greatly affect human life, including business actors. The government is urgently required to solve the emerging problems caused by the disaster. This study aims to determine collaborative governance in handling natural and non-natural disasters that affect the business actors in Palu City. This study used a quantitative approach with a series of statistical tests. The sample of this study consisted of 207 respondents who are government and the business actors in Palu City affected by natural and non-natural disasters. Data were collected through observation, questionnaires, and documentation. Then, the data were analyzed with statistical testing including descriptive statistics and a T-Test (comparative test). The results showed a significant difference between collaborative governance during natural and non-natural disasters. Further, the differences in collaborative governance can be seen in the leadership and initial condition variables. When a natural disaster occurs, leadership is urgently required, while a non-natural disaster caused by the COVID-19 is highly determined by the initial conditions. It means that government decision-making to deal with non-natural disasters from the start is urgently required. The evidence can be seen from some countries and regions with slow response to the COVID-19 resulting in difficulty in controlling the spread of the virus.
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Guven-Uslu, Pinar, and Lynne Conrad. "Uses of Management Accounting Information for Benchmarking in NHS Trusts." Public Money & Management 28, no. 4 (August 2008): 239–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9302.2008.00650.x.
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Nagel, Stuart S. "Updating Microcomputers and Public Policy Analysis." Political Science Teacher 2, no. 2 (1989): 20–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0896082800000635.
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The purpose of this brief review is to update the article entitled “Microcomputers and Public Policy Analysis” which appeared in the summer/fall 1985 special symposium issue of the Public Productivity Review on “Microcomputer Applications to Productivity Improvements.”A lot happened in the three years since early 1985 (when the original article was drafted) and early 1988 (when the current updating review was drafted). The main idea that the 1985 article reported was the development of pioneering software. The logical next step was the inclusion of such software as part of the textbook literature of public administration, business administration, policy analysis, political science, and related fields.This updating review thus mainly reports the availability of recent textbooks which provide a microcomputer interface regarding the five fields which were emphasized in the original article. Those five software fields most relevant to public productivity are multi-criteria decision making, management science/operations research, statistical analysis, information systems, and computer-assisted instruction.
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Iyer, Raja K., and Kakoli Bandyopadhyay. "Managing technology risks in the healthcare sector: disaster recovery and business continuity planning." Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal 9, no. 4 (October 1, 2000): 257–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09653560010351899.
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The relentless onslaught of computers and communications technologies has recently descended on the healthcare industry. Fortunately, however, the utilization of technologies in healthcare delivery and administration could not be timelier because of the need to control escalating health costs. While the proliferation of information and communication technologies in healthcare, referred to as health management information systems (HMIS), is certainly long overdue in healthcare organizations (HCOs), it is important to recognize and be prepared for the vulnerabilities of these technologies to natural, technological, and man‐made disasters. This paper describes how HCOs have justifiably become dependent on HMIS and how these organizations may proactively plan for disasters which can impact on HMIS. A phased approach, referred to as the disaster recovery and business continuity (DRBC) planning model, is presented in the paper as an approach to develop and implement business continuity plans in HCOs.
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IACOB, Prof Dr Andreea Iluzia. "Message from Editor." Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues 7, no. 1 (April 12, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjbem.v7i1.1645.
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Dear Readers, It is the great honour for me to publish seventh volume, first issue of Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues.Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues is an international, multi-disciplinary, peer-referred journal which aims to provide a global platform for professionals working in the field of business, economics, management, accounting, marketing, banking and finance and scholars and researchers to share their theoretical, empirical and practical knowledge on current issues in the area of business, economics and management.The journal welcomes original empirical investigations and comprehensive literature review articles. The scope of the journal contents is not limited to Accounting, Advertising Management, Business and Economics, Business Ethics, Business Law, International Finance, Labour Economics, Labour Relations and Human Resource Management, Law and Economics, Management Information Systems, Business Law, Corporate Finance and Governance, Management Science, Market Structure and Pricing, Marketing Research and Strategy, Marketing Theory and Applications, Operations Research, Organizational Behaviour and Theory, Organizational Communication, Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles, Product Management, Economic Development, Economic Methodology, Economic Policy, Production and Organizations, Production/Operations Management, Public Administration and Small Business Entrepreneurship, Public Choice, Public Economics and Finance, Public Relations, Resource Management, Strategic Management, Strategic Management Policy, Stress Management, Supply Change Management, E-Business and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.Many authors from different countries have contributed to and current and comprehensive issues from the fields of business, economics and management are included in this issue. Adventure tourism, furniture businesses, ethics and route optimization are some examples of the topics. The topics of the next issue will be different. You can make sure that we will be trying to serve you with our journal to provide a rich knowledge of the field. Different kinds of topics will be discussed in 2017 Volume.A total number of thirty- two (32) manuscripts were submitted for this issue and each paper has been subjected to double-blind peer review process by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total number of twenty-two (22) high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication. I present many thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue.Best regards,Prof. Dr. Andreea Iluzia Iacob Editor – in Chief
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Stradi Granados, María Stella. "Characterization and Analysis of Business Incubation Systems in Costa Rica: The Case of Public Universities." Innovar 29, no. 74 (October 1, 2019): 57–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/innovar.v29n74.82061.
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Despite the inexistence (or disintegration) of data and pertinent information this study, conducted in 2015, describes the characteristics of an incubation business model that proposes an integral vision of this ecosystem in Costa Rica. This exploratory study uses typical information collection techniques for the application of a qualitative paradigm with ethnographic elements. In-depth interviews were carried out with business incubator managers holding active projects at public universities in Costa Rica, and a digital questionnaire was sent to incubators managers in Latin American (Chile and Mexico) to compare relevant aspects between incubators. As a result, 81 characteristics were determined and grouped in a model of eight categories: constituent aspects, directive profile, organizational model, management strategies, operational resources, strategic alliances, project management, and student relationship. Even though common elements are present in incubators, it was also determined that each model has its own identity with multiple distinctive characteristics, such as: an organizational model, an academic model, available resources and standardization processes for potential entrepreneurs.
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Tomczyk, Łukasz, Valéria Farinazzo Martins, Maria Amelia Eliseo, Ismar Frango Silveira, Cibelle de la Higuera Amato, and Lazar Stošić. "ICT and education in Brazil - NGO, local government administration, business and higher education expert perspective." World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues 12, no. 4 (October 30, 2020): 401–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/wjet.v12i4.5198.
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The paper aims to present the conditions surrounding the use of ICTs in Brazilian schools. The goal of the study was to offer a wide perspective that included the opportunities, barriers, transfer of knowledge, and challenges related to introducing information technology into education. The technique used was qualitative - an expert interview with four experienced respondents. The individuals interviewed represented different areas of professional activity: the academic sector, the implementation of practical activities in schools, pedagogical supervision, and the development of commercial software. The study was conducted in 2019, as part of the expert conference CBIE (Congresso Brasileiro de Informática da Educação – Brazilian Conference on Computers in Education). The results of the analyses reveal that the challenges of implementing ICT in educational processes are similar to those found in the global perspective. According to these experts, Brazil faces similar issues to those found in other countries, namely: the appropriate preparation of teachers in the use of ICT, supplying schools with high-speed and up-to-date hardware and software, encouraging teachers to use ICT, the re-constitution of educational policies, and changes in administering IT resources within schools.
Keywords: ICT; Brazil; school; computers; Internet; information society; experts; interview; SELI;
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Krneta, Dubravka, Tomaz Boh, and Franci Demsar. "The interplay among processes, legal regulations and information technology: implications for the public administration." International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development 8, no. 1 (2010): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijmed.2010.029759.
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Williams, Walter, Robert G. Picard, Michael Cockerell, Peter Hennessy, David Walker, and Clive Ponting. "Information." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 6, no. 1 (1986): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3324093.
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Schaeffer, Donna M., and Donald (Nick) Rouse. "Effective Academic Advisory Committee Relationships." Contemporary Issues in Education Research (CIER) 7, no. 1 (December 30, 2013): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/cier.v7i1.8308.
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Recently, accrediting bodies are placing great responsibility for accountability on universities and academic schools, departments, and programs. The goal of the increased accountability is improved quality of teaching and learning. In this paper, we describe several levels of accountability for quality teaching and learning in a small, private, liberal arts college. We describe the role the Universitys Board of Trustees. Moving to the School of Business Administration, we explain several activities the Board of Visitors facilitate and participate in. Then, we localize to the Department of Information Systems and Management Science, which has had an advisory committee comprised of award-winning Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers since 2009-2010. Finally, we describe efforts involved in building an advisory committee for a new academic program within the department, the Bachelors in Health Information Management (HIM). This examination provides insights and examples for others who are seeking to establish or re-invigorate their relationships with advisors. It is interesting in that some cases the advisory committee is mandated by law, e.g., the University of Board of Trustees, others are voluntary, e.g., the Schools Board of Visitors and the departments advisory committee, and still others may be prescribed and required by accrediting bodies within particular fields, e.g., the Health Information Management (HIM) program.
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Compton, Michael E. "418 Results of an Ornamental Horticulture Survey Conducted at High Schools in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin." HortScience 35, no. 3 (June 2000): 465C—465. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.35.3.465c.
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Fifty high schools were surveyed in northwestern Illinois, northeastern Iowa, southeastern Minnesota, and Wisconsin to determine the number of students interested in pursuing a horticulture degree at a 4-year university. Students were asked several questions pertaining to horticulture. About 45% of our surveys were returned. Of the 451 surveys received, about 47% of the high school freshman, sophomore, junior, and seniors indicated that they were interested in horticulture. About 41% of the students interested in horticulture wanted to work in landscaping, 20% greenhouse, 14% florist shop, and 7% in turfgrass management. About 70% of the students indicated that they wanted to own and operate their own horticultural business. Almost 53% of the students indicated that they would prefer an emphasis/minor in Agribusiness or Business Administration compared to plant and soil science (19%), biotechnology (14%), plant breeding and genetics (13%), or comprehensive horticulture (1%) in combination with their horticulture degree. The above information was used by our School of Agriculture and Depts. of Biology and Business and Accounting to develop a major in Ornamental Horticulture.
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Ha, Hyunsang, and Richard C. Feiock. "Bargaining, Networks, and Management of Municipal Development Subsidies." American Review of Public Administration 42, no. 4 (May 10, 2011): 481–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0275074011408588.
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This article investigates why cities use fiscal analyses such as cost–benefit analysis and/or fiscal impact analysis to manage offers of economic development incentives to business. We advance an approach to understanding economic development subsidies and control mechanisms that integrate political bargaining and network theories. Municipal bargaining power, institutional incentives, and organizational networks are hypothesized to influence development subsidy decisions. The results confirm that local governments’ bargaining power and political institutions influence the degree to which cities use fiscal analyses. In addition, public/private organizational networks that bridge public and private sectors by linking quasigovernmental organizations and local governments increase information and credibility thus leading to greater use of fiscal analyses.
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Morgan, Morgan, Emmanuel E. Okon, Christian Amadi, Winifred Emu, and Anthony Ogar. "Dynamic capabilities of family business: a catalyst for survival and growth." Problems and Perspectives in Management 19, no. 1 (February 10, 2021): 137–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.19(1).2021.12.
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The purpose of the study is to investigate the dynamic capabilities of family business as a catalyst for survival and growth in Nigeria. A quantitative technique involving a descriptive survey was adopted for the study. A questionnaire measurement instrument was constructed and deployed on a sample of 410 respondents in the selected family businesses. Copies of the questionnaire measurement instrument were conveniently distributed to employees of the selected family businesses to obtain data for the study. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was used to validate the constructs in the measurement instrument. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to estimate the structural relationship between constructs of family business dynamic capabilities for survival and growth. The results showed that sensing and seizing, learning and reconfiguration and succession planning capabilities of family business have a significant positive effect on survival and growth. Therefore, family business managers should effectively deploy sensing and seizing, learning and reconfiguration and succession planning capabilities to enhance business survival and growth. AcknowledgmentsThe authors express gratitude to anonymous reviewers, the journal editor and all the authors whose works were used in this study. The authors are grateful to the management of the family businesses included in the study for their approval for the administration of the questionnaire instrument and to the survey respondents who gave their views on the issues raised in the questionnaire instrument.
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Elshorbagy, Sherif, Lalit Garg, Vipul Gupta, Gopalakrishnan Narayanamurthy, and Yosuf Abd Al Oraini. "The Impact of Information Systems on Management Performance in the Pharmaceutical Industry." Journal of Cases on Information Technology 17, no. 3 (July 2015): 56–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jcit.2015070106.
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There are many aspects that should be considered while implementing ISs in pharmaceutical companies. This is due to the various regulations and standards that the governmental authorities impose on these companies. In addition, any audit from US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or other authorities will require computer system validation to be performed for the implemented ISs to ensure that all areas that affect the drugs lifecycle are following the required standards, and that each single process in this lifecycle is validated. Unfortunately, many pharmaceutical companies didn't recognize yet the importance of ISs to their businesses. The research presented in this paper examines the value of using an information system (IS) in pharmaceutical environment and how it can be a key component of improving the operational and process effectiveness by supporting the strategic decisions and enabling the decision-makers to take their decisions in short time. Lack of information in pharmaceutical companies is one of the reasons why these companies will not be able to compete in this competitive market because the delays in taking decisions, product lifecycle, and supply chain. Pharmaceutical companies required to follow various regulations and standards, and ISs are the tools that can be mapped to these standards and control the business operations without any obstacles. The authors conducted a comprehensive study to investigate the role of ISs in the pharmaceutical industry through a review of existing literatures relevant to the research subject and through a questionnaire survey with 54 participants working in the pharmaceutical industry in different countries in the Middle East. The survey aimed to understand the present status of ISs in pharmaceutical companies and the impact of ISs on management performance, operation improvement, end-users productivity, and compliance with the regulations and standards of the pharmaceutical industry in their companies. Moreover, the survey also aimed to identify the catalysts behind successful implementation of ISs.
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Morley, Jane, Dennis A. Yao, and Edward R. Tufte. "Envisioning Information." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 11, no. 2 (1992): 337. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3325378.
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Stolp, Chandler, and Howard T. Fisher. "Mapping Information: The Graphic Display of Quantitative Information." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 4, no. 3 (1985): 470. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3324245.
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DiPasquale, Joanna, and Claire R. McInerney. "Knowledge Management in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 09, no. 04 (December 2010): 341–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649210002723.
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KM principles often apply to large companies (more than 200 employees), where issues of general management and skill sets, as well as resources, often require comprehensive and multi-department solutions. However, many small businesses experience the same issues of knowledge sharing and management, but may find boundaries in the development and implementation of programs. How can small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) benefit from KM principles? What areas in the traditional literature immediately apply, and what boundaries arise? Often encompassing multiple roles, managerial practices, and efforts in microcosm, how can these smaller companies provide the structure and impact needed to make KM principles work for them? This work analyses the problems that small businesses face in the collection, dissemination, and storage of company knowledge, including issues of technology, communities of practice, and "stickiness" for best-practice goals. The definitions of small business, as outlined by the European Commission and U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), will serve as a useful tool for scope and discussion. This research will explore three key classifications of traits — structural or systemic, communication, and qualitative — through a review of the areas in which the challenges of small businesses, because of their size, imply somewhat different approaches to KM.
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Soares, Delfina, and Luis Amaral. "Information Systems Interoperability in Public Administration: Identifying the Major Acting Forces through a Delphi Study." Journal of theoretical and applied electronic commerce research 6, no. 1 (April 2011): 61–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/s0718-18762011000100006.
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Hilty, Donald M., John Luo, Evangelina Giron, and Dong-Gil Ko. "A Shared Information Technology-Business-Health Model: Lessons for Healthcare Leaders on Integrating Technology from Investment." Psychology and Cognitive Sciences – Open Journal 7, no. 1 (July 6, 2021): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17140/pcsoj-7-159.
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Objective: Technology is rapidly shifting our day-to-day existence, education, social relationships, health care and business. Psychiatric leaders have slowly explored telepsychiatric services – but few have an approach to technology in general–due to competing clinical, educational and research demands. Technology has typically been added on, rather than integrated, to institutional functions. Method: This narrative review used a literature search of Medline, PsycNET, PsycINFO, Embase, Cochrane, SpringerLink, Scopus, ABI/Inform, Business Source Complete, and Web of Science, using subject headings and keywords along with a manual search of reference lists of articles published by November 2020. The keywords explored four areas: 1) business; 2) service delivery; 3) system change; and 4) technology. Articles were reviewed by title/abstract, full text review and review of references. They were included if they discussed integration of technology into health care and compared literature from medicine/health, psychiatry/behavioral health, business, technology, leadership and health care administration. The goal was to explore how medicine/psychiatry has integrated technology compared to business, and apply business approaches to health care and training. Results: From a total of 2,710 potential references, two authors found 327 eligible for full text review and found 69 papers directly relevant to the concepts. Business and medicine/psychiatry have similarities/differences from both historical and contemporary views. Many health care systems and companies lack a strategic plan for technology and focus only on short-term due to administrative demands. Clinical informatics is a rapidly expanding area and would be central to this process. It has started to facilitate patient-centered care as defined by quality, affordable, and timely health care. While in principle information systems use integrative approaches, electronic health records, electronic means of communications with patients and staff, behavioral health indicators and related digital advances are often added to existing systems rather than integrated. Effective businesses use integrative approaches to share domain knowledge and streamline practices to link information technology (IT) with research and development, production, financing and marketing management. A case example highlights the IT strategy and business leaders’ comments in shifting to straight through processing (STP) from the banking industry for investments. It also exemplifies a model of shared IT-business understanding, which improves performance via efficiency, quality of data/information processing/integration and managerial teamwork. Conclusion: When it is integrated into health care service delivery workflow, evaluated and quality improved, IT facilitates the translation of strategic planning into organizational change. Incremental versus strategically innovative approaches to technological integration for care, education and administration are considered. Successful implementation requires a needs and impact assessment for patients, staff, clinicians and leaders across all levels of the organization. Benefits to the mission, limited disruptions of core operational workflow and reasonable costs reduce the likelihood of failure.
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Prihandono, Dorojatun, Andhi Wijayanto, and Dwi Cahyaningdyah. "Franchise business sustainability model: Role of conflict risk management in Indonesian franchise businesses." Problems and Perspectives in Management 19, no. 3 (September 21, 2021): 383–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.19(3).2021.31.
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Franchising is one of the most trustworthy strategic alliance formations to start or expand businesses. Like many other business formations, franchise businesses need sustainable and long-term running; these objectives can be reached by a proper relationship between partners – the franchisor and the franchisee – in the alliances. Both partners’ perspectives are valuable inputs to provide insight into understanding the sustainability of Indonesian franchise businesses. Furthermore, in any type of strategic alliances conflict is a risk that needs to be managed properly. This study aims to examine the relationships of determinants that influence franchise business sustainability. The determinants are risk management, trust, satisfaction, and sustainability. The study applies confirmatory factor analysis using structural equation modeling (SEM) AMOS software. Respondents in this study are franchisors and franchisees in the Indonesian retail and food and beverages (F&B) sectors, the study accommodates 204 respondents. Based on the analysis the study reveals that there is a positive relationship between risk management and satisfaction. Risk management also has a positive relationship with survivability; trust and satisfaction also have a positive relationship. Meanwhile, there is no relationship between satisfaction and survivability and the last relationship is between trust and survivability that has no positive relationship between the determinants. This study provides clearer insight to understand the relationships between determinants that influence franchise business survivability in Indonesia, especially based on both parties’ perspectives.
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Miri Lavassani, Kayvan, Bahar Movahedi, and Glenn Parry. "Broadband Internet adoption challenge." Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy 8, no. 4 (October 14, 2014): 620–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tg-11-2013-0050.
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Purpose – This paper aims to investigate empirically how broadband has been implemented at the business level and what are the potential adoption benchmarks. Several recent studies have called for the development of frameworks of broadband adoption, particularly at the business level, to help policy makers, communities and businesses with their strategic decision-making process. Design/methodology/approach – This paper opens the discussion by presenting concerns and challenges of Internet adoption. Internet adoption is viewed as the current challenge facing businesses, communities and governments. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) techniques are used to create, analyze and develop Internet adoption models. Findings – Based on the Internet usage data from a number of states across the USA, measurement models are developed using EFA and CFA. The findings indicate that for our sample, a three-factor model is the most appropriate for the representation of Internet adoption in the tourism sector, while a five-factor model can best describe Internet adoption in the sample of manufacturing organizations. Research limitations/implications – The availability of data on Internet usage at the business/organizational level is one of the main constraints. Industry/community-specific data can also provide valuable insights about the Internet adoption and support the development of industry/community-specific adoption models. Practical implications – The findings and the employed research method can be used by businesses, communities and government managers and policy makers as benchmarks to examine broadband adoption based on gap-opportunity criteria. Originality/value – This is the first study that provides Internet adoption models based on an empirical study at the business level. The benefits of broadband Internet have been investigated by many researchers in the past decade. There seems to be a consensus among practitioners and scholars about the role of broadband Internet in gaining competitive advantage. However, there have not been any previous studies that investigate how broadband has been implemented and what the potential adoption benchmarks at the business level are.
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Yang, Cungang, and Chang N. Zhang. "An XML‐based administration method on role‐based access control in the enterprise environment." Information Management & Computer Security 11, no. 5 (December 2003): 249–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09685220310500162.
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Jamieson, David, Rob Wilson, Mike Martin, Toby Lowe, Jonathan Kimmitt, Jane Gibbon, and Max French. "Data for outcome payments or information for care? A sociotechnical analysis of the management information system in the implementation of a social impact bond." Public Money & Management 40, no. 3 (January 27, 2020): 213–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2020.1714306.
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Pinem, Ave Adriana, Ivonne Margi Immanuella, Achmad Nizar Hidayanto, Kongkiti Phusavat, and Meyliana Meyliana. "Trust and its impact towards continuance of use in government-to-business online service." Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy 12, no. 3/4 (October 15, 2018): 265–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tg-02-2018-0008.
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Purpose This study aims to understand the antecedent of trust towards government-to-business (G2B) service in Indonesia. Trust will be viewed through four aspects, namely, cognition-based trust, personality-oriented trust, affect-based trust and experience–based trust. Then, these antecedents of trust were examined as the factors of continuance intention by extending the expected confirmation theory (ECT). Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through a quantitative approach, and 389 respondents were involved in the study. The respondents are the investors who represent their organization which uses e-government service to report their investment activities to the Investment Coordinating Board of Indonesia. Data were analyzed using partial least square structural equation modelling approach with WarpPLS 4.0. Findings The result shows that factors that determine a user’s trust in government online service are service quality, trust towards government entity, recommendation to use the service and user’s habit of using the service. Factors that do not determine a user’s trust in government online service is a disposition to trust. Another finding is that a user’s trust on an online service does not directly influence his/her continuance of use. Trust will impact the continuance of use through perceptions of benefits and perceived satisfaction of using the online service. Research limitations/implications ECT is applicable in G2B process. Organizations have a perception of benefit while using a public e-service and confirm the perception through their experience while using an e-service to gain satisfaction, and this will encourage them to continue using the service. Practical implications To improve organizations’ trust on the e-service, the government needs to improve the e-service quality (by evaluating the efficiency, privacy, user support, reliability and information quality), investor familiarity of the system (training or socialization), investor trust on the government entity (improve the employee competence) and recommendation on using the system. Originality/value Trust dimension has also been studied to be a factor that influences the intention or continuance of use of technology; however, it has rarely been studied towards its effect in the ECT’s context. In e-government study, there are various studies related to government-to-citizen (G2C) concept. However, the research in government-to-business (G2B) area that has not been explored much.
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Lynn, Frances M., and Susan G. Hadden. "Risk and Information." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 7, no. 3 (1988): 584. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3323742.
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Silva, Kelyane, Alexandre Guimarães Vasconcellos, Josealdo Tonholo, and Manuel Mira Godinho. "Academic patenting in Brazil: the role of academic inventors in PCT patent applications – 2002-2012." Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración 30, no. 4 (November 6, 2017): 529–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/arla-06-2016-0164.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the patenting activity of the Brazilian academic sector vis-à-vis the domestic business sector, taking into account the recent evolution of Brazil’s industrial policies. The paper differentiates between “university academic patents”, which are owned by the universities, and “non-university academic patents”, which despite being invented by academic staff are not owned by the universities. Design/methodology/approach The authors’ cross-checked information regarding the names of all inventors with Brazilian addresses in PCT patent applications in the Espacenet database with the names of researchers in the CVs available on the Lattes Platform of CNPq. The analysis specifically focussed on patent applications published in the PCT with Brazilian priority for the 2002-2012 period. Findings It was found that the Brazilian academic patents concentrate on science-based technology areas, especially in the Pharma Biotechnology domain. For a total of 466 patent applications with Brazilian priority in this field, 233 have academic inventors. Of those 233 academic applications, 66.1 per cent have universities as their owners, while the remaining 33.9 per cent are not owned by universities. Further, it was found that there are more Brazilian academic patents in the biotechnology sub-domain than those filed by the business sector. Research limitations/implications This research was based on the intersection of patent databases and the content available on the official curriculum base of Brazil (Lattes Platform, CNPq). Once the curricula information are voluntary, there are risks inherent reliability of this information. Practical implications This study allows us to identify more accurately which is the effective role of the Brazilian Academy in patents generation, revealing that a significant unaccounted deposits with personal inventors or companies’ ownership really have a academic contribution. Originality/value This paper shows that the academic sector plays a key role in Brazil’s international patenting activity, particularly in science-intensive technology domains, and it highlights the specific contribution of academic patents not owned by universities.
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Rob, Mohammad A., and Floyd J. Srubar. "Information gems from criminal mines." Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy 10, no. 2 (May 16, 2016): 297–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tg-03-2015-0016.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how existing volumes of big city crime data could be converted to significantly useful information by law enforcement agencies using readily available data warehouse and OLAP technologies. During the post-9/11 era, criminal data collection by law enforcement agencies received significant attention across the world. Rapid advancement of technology helped collection and storage of these data in large volumes, but often do not get analyzed due to improper data format, lack of technological knowledge and time. Data warehousing (DW) and On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools can be used to organize and present these data in a form strategically meaningful to the general public. In this study, the authors took a seven-month sample crime data from the City of Houston Police Department’s website, cleaned and organized them into a data warehouse with the hope of answering common questions related to crime statistics in a big city in the USA. Design/methodology/approach The raw data for the seven-month period was collected from the website in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format for each month. The data were then cleaned, described, renamed, formatted and then imported into a compiled Access database along with the definition of Facts and Dimensions using a STAR Schema. Data were then transferred to the Microsoft SQL Server data warehouse. SQL Server Analysis Services and Visual Studio Business Intelligent Tool are used to create a Data Cube for OLAP analysis of the summarized data. Findings To prove the usefulness of the DW and OLAP cube, the authors have shown few sample queries displaying the number and the types of crimes as a function of time of the day, location, premises, etc. For example, the authors found that 98 crimes occurred on a major street in the city during the early working hours (7 am and 12 pm) when nobody virtually was at home, and among those crimes, roughly two-thirds of them are thefts. This summarized information is significantly useful to the general public and the law enforcement agencies. Research limitations/implications The authors’ research is limited to one city’s crime data, whose data set might be different from other cities. In addition to the volume of data and lack of descriptions, the major limitations encountered were the lack of major neighborhood names and their relation to streets. There are other government agencies that provide data to this effect, and a standard set of data would facilitate the process. The authors also looked at data for a nine-month period only. Analyzing data over many years will provide time-trend of crime statistics for a longer period of time. Practical implications Many federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are rapidly embracing technology to publish crime data through their websites. However, more attention will need to be paid to the quality and utility of this information to the general public. At the time, there exists no compiled source of crime data or its trend as a function of time, crime type, location and premises. There needs to be a coherent system that allows for an average citizen to obtain this information in a more consumable package. DW and OLAP tools can provide this information package. Social implications Having the crime data of a big city in a consumable form is immensely useful for all segments of the constituency that the government agencies serve and will become a service that these offices will be expected to deliver on demand. This information could also be useful in many instances for the decision makers, ranging from those seeking to start a business, to those seeking a place to live who may not necessarily know which neighborhoods or parts of the city are more prone to criminal activity than others. Originality/value While there have been few reports of possible use of DW and OALP technologies to study criminal data, the authors found that not many authors used actual crime data, the data sets and formats used in each case are different, results are not presented in most cases and the actual vendor technologies implemented can be different as well. In this paper, the authors present how DW and OLAP tools readily available in most enterprises can be used to analyze publicly available criminal datasets and convert them into meaningful information, which can be valuable not only to the law enforcement agencies but to the public at large.
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Shapiro, Marc D. "Equity and information: Information regulation, environmental justice, and risks from toxic chemicals." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 24, no. 2 (2005): 373–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pam.20094.
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Khan, Ghalib, and Rubina Bhatti. "The impact of higher education commission of pakistan’s funding on the collection development budgets of university libraries." Bottom Line 29, no. 1 (May 9, 2016): 12–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bl-06-2015-0008.
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Purpose This study aims to investigate the annual financial management of university libraries in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan, and its relationship with Higher Education Commission (HEC) grants to examine libraries’ share. Design/methodology/approach Using survey methods, this study explores the annual budget allocation of well-established university libraries in the province of KPK in the past five years and its relationship with HEC grants to determine libraries’ shares. The survey followed a qualitative design based on an interview technique of data collection. The scope of this study covers all those public sector universities which are chartered by the Government of KPK, recognized by HEC, and eligible for HEC grants on annual basis. Based on this formulation, 15 public sector universities were selected for the survey. Findings The data analysis of the present study revealed that no specific norms are followed by the university administrations in allocating funds for libraries out of HEC annual grants. University libraries in the province either do not have funding polices or are administered by the concerned establishments where Library and Information Science professionals have no role in the financial management of libraries. The study also found that university administrations in KPK either do not provide sufficient share to libraries out of HEC grants or specify an inadequate share which is in violation of the clear instructions of HEC ordinance 2002, Section 10(h). Originality/value This study is the first of its kind in Pakistan as it provides an insight into how much budget is allocated for collection development in the university libraries, compares it with HEC grants to calculate libraries’ share in percentage and suggests to the HEC to encourage university administration to allocate sufficient budget for libraries to improve collection development, service provision, acquisition, selection and patronage.
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Naudé, Wim, and Martin Cameron. "Failing to pull together: South Africa’s troubled response to COVID-19." Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy 15, no. 2 (January 4, 2021): 219–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tg-09-2020-0276.
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Purpose This paper aims to provide a country case study of South Africa’s response during the first six months following its first COVID-19 case. The focus is on the government’s (mis-)management of its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (or “lockdown”) to stem the pandemic and the organized business sector’s resistance against the lockdown. Design/methodology/approach This paper makes use of a literature review and provides descriptive statistics and quantitative analysis of COVID-19 and the lockdown stringency in South Africa, based on data from Google Mobility Trends, Oxford University’s Stringency Index, Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 tracker and Our World in Data. Findings This paper finds that both the government and the business sector’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have been problematic. These key actors have been failing to “pull together,” leaving South Africa’s citizens in-between corrupt and incompetent officials on the one hand, and lockdown skeptics on the other. This paper argues that to break through this impasse, the country should change direction by agreeing on a smart or “Goldilocks” lockdown, based on data, testing, decentralization, demographics and appropriate economic support measures, including export support. Such a Goldilocks lockdown is argued, based on available evidence from the emerging scientific literature, to be able to save lives, improve trust in government, limit economic damages and moreover improve the country’s long-term recovery prospects. Research limitations/implications The pandemic is an unprecedented crisis and moreover was still unfolding at the time of writing. This has two implications. First, precise data on the economic impact and certain epidemiological parameters was not (yet) available. Second, the causes of the mismanagement by the government are not clear yet, within such a short time frame. More research and better data may be able in future to allow conclusions to be drawn whether the problems that were besetting the country’s management of COVID-19 are unique or perhaps part of a more general problem across developing countries. Practical implications The paper provides clear practical implications for both government and organized business. The South African Government should not altogether end its lockdown measures, but follow a smart and flexible lockdown. The organized business sector should abandon its calls for ending the lockdown while the country is still among the most affected countries in the world, and no vaccine is available. Social implications There should be better collaboration between government, business and civil society to manage a smart lockdown. Government should re-establish lost trust because of the mismanagement of the lockdown during the first six months of the pandemic. Originality/value The outline of the smart lockdown that is proposed for the country combines NPIs with the promotion of exports, as a policy intervention to help aggregate demand to recover. The paper provides advice on how to resolve an impasse created by mismanagement of COVID-19, which could be valuable for decision-making during a crisis, particularly in developing countries.