We propose a multisided platform approach that is user-based but seeks to provide an infrastructure that supports all stakeholders, making it easier for vendors to design, market and support access features, products, and services and that makes it easier for consumers to find, secure, and use access features, products and services, individually or mixed, on any device they encounter. The syste...

Genetically engineered or modified viruses (GMVs) are being increasingly used as live vaccine vectors and their applications may have environmental implications that must be taken into account in risk assessment and management processes. In most legislative frameworks GMVs are treated as GMOs (genetically modified organisms), which require ERA (environmental risk assessment) in addition to the ...

Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) has become a popular topic for business and academic research since the early 1990's. Different researchers focus on different areas: applications, services, marketing, strategy, the Internet, extranets and technologies in ECommerce, to name but a few. Yet despite this focus on E-Commerce, there is still confusion about just what it is. The aim of this paper is ...

With the recent spreading of social networks and digital communities, the Web has a new business model for providing free content-sharing services. Using the power of the masses and the collective intelligence, Web 2.0 sites have created enormous e-commerce opportunities for marketing and advertising. Thus, there is still a necessity of developing tools to help users to reach good decisions in ...

The unprecedented volume of data captured by modern hospitality firms during the co-production of the service experience can be used to create economic value. In this article we describe two frameworks grounded in the cross-disciplinary literature in information systems, strategy and marketing, that can help in conceptualizing future research directions in this area. In the first framework, the...

Gesture capture, motion tracking and 3D visualisation technologies have generated many new musical forms, often extending the mannerisms or behaviours of a given performer or discipline, providing new compositional frameworks for real time synthesis in response to action. In many cases these approaches are presented within a single domain, a live stage performance, a site specific installation,...

the importance and the necessity of huge investments in oil section, legal and financial frameworks adjusting the relationship between great investor companies and oil countries have long been important issues. the history of oil investment from colonial period endeavors to investigate the general frameworks defining the relationship between governments receiving the investment and companies. a...

The goal of this study was to describe how activists engaged in campaigns to change alcohol policies in inner city areas framed alcohol problems, and whether or not their frameworks reflected major models used in the field, such as the alcoholism as a disease model, an alcohol problems perspective, or a public health approach to alcohol problems. The findings showed that activists' models share...

This paper explores possible steps toward incorporating the increasingly important topics of service and service systems into the core of the IS field, thereby moving toward a service-oriented core without abandoning existing tool-oriented concepts and methods. Incorporating more of a service mindset into IS would add to the many service-related topics that it already contains. A service mindse...

Technical advancements in molecular and cellular biology have the potential to provide an amazing array of human tissue engineering products (hTEP), and in doing so may revolutionize medical practice. The range of potential applications and the marketing potential for this technology is considerable. As it is such a rapidly evolving area, the technical advancements are well ahead of the corresp...