Somebody is hiding something: Disentangling interpersonal level drivers and consequences of knowledge hiding in international entrepreneurial firms

Somebody, Sometime, Somewhere, Something

The success of the Web and of portable devices has made popular the idea that any information could be made available to anybody, anytime, and anywhere. Other paradigms are taking off within the ubiquitous computing solutions. This invited paper identifies some of these paradigms, focusing on the more innovative ones in terms of information services. In particular, broadcast-based and location-...

International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurial Firms Dynamics

We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Using a unique firm level data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 2004 and 1999, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has been associated with higher levels of entrepreneurial activity. Our results are robust to...

Understanding counterproductive knowledge behavior: antecedents and consequences of intra-organizational knowledge hiding

Alexander Serenko is based at the Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada. Nick Bontis is based at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. Abstract Purpose – This paper aims to explore antecedents and consequences of intra-organizational knowledge hiding. Design/methodology/approach – A model was developed and tested with data...

A Methodology for Hiding Knowledge in Databases

Hiding Information in Multi Level Security Systems

In this paper we analyze the possibility for malicious agents to transmit an information possibly hidden in a Multi Level Security System via a covert channel. We give a framework for which we get two decidability results. Firstly, given a code and a system one can decide whether the system allows a covert channel for this code. Secondly, one can decide whether there exists a code to transmit o...