Sources of Transparency: Information Systems in International Regimes

a contrastive study of rhetorical functions of citation in iranian and international elt scopus journals

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...

The Tension between Transparency and Confidentiality in International Arbitrations

The present research study intends to investigate the concepts of transparency, confidentiality and privacy within the scope of Investor-State Arbitration and International Commercial Arbitration.Transparency, confidentiality and privacy are the main pillars of international arbitration which have a close relationship together, however in some cases they are in a controversial situation. The te...

Theories of international regimes

Disciplining Information Systems: Truth and its Regimes

Correspondence: Lucas D. Introna, Centre for the Study of Technology and Organisation, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, LA1 4YX, UK E-mail: [email protected] Abstract This paper provides a critical discussion of the ongoing concern of Information Systems (IS) academics on the status of IS as an academic discipline. The focal claim of the argument is that the status of ...

Sources of Uncertainty in Information Systems ∗

We define a simple and general model of information systems, and use this model to classify the various kinds of uncertainty in information systems into two major categories: uncertainty in descriptions of the real world and uncertainty in manipulations of descriptions. We survey briefly several approaches that have been developed for dealing with these kinds of uncertainty, and we speculate on...