The IBM PC was the first digital computer platform that was open by as a matter of strategy, not necessity. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the IBM PC as a technical system and set of organization choices in light of the theory of how technology shapes organizations. In Chapter 7, I...

Criminal elements in today's technology-driven society are using every means available at their disposal to launder the proceeds from their illegal activities. While many-anti-money laundering solutions have been in place for some time within the financial community, they cannot adapt to the...

IT security outsourcing is the establishment of a contractual relationship between an organization with an outside vendor which assumes responsibility for the organisation’s security functions. Outsourcing in IS has had a variable history of success and the complexity of the decision making...

This paper presents a generic conceptual model of risk evaluation in order to manage the risk throughrelated constraints and variables under a multi-agent collaborative design environment. Initially, a hierarchyconstraint network is developed to mapping constraints and variables. Then, an...

We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...

Although SOA development and service identification are widely discussed among academics and practitioners alike, little is known about how they are performed in practice. Thus, this paper investigates how SOA development and service identification work in real-life projects. An explorative...

For the first time the transfer activities of two different German university types - the Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) and the University of Applied Sciences Jena (FH Jena) - were documented in parallel over all departments and channels of technology transfers with regard to their...

Neu an dieser Studie ist, dass zum ersten Mal umfassend die Transferaktivitäten von zwei unterschiedlichen Hochschultypen - in diesem Fall der Friedrich Schiller Universität (FSU) und der Fachhochschule Jena (FH Jena) - parallel und über alle Fächer hinweg hinsichtlich ihrer regionalen...