Information systems researchers and practitioners alike have always felt the need to minimise systemic risks arising out of the use of information technology. Research has identified the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information as vital concepts. However, in developing counter-measures to threats in these three areas the focus has been on questions such as computer viruses, ha...

A systematic cross-country analysis of e-commerce activity reveals that although physical infrastructure explains much of the variation in basic Internet use, e-commerce activity also depends significantly on the "rule of law" and, secondarily, on availability of credible payment channels such as credit cards. These results suggest that an institutional environment that facilitates the building...

identification of rapid degradation of ecological resources requires effective environmental monitoring including ecological integrity assessment .our first aim is to analyze ecological integrity in a landscape context while developing a method to assess integrity in spite of a dearth of historical data. we used a spatial-temporal reference framework for land cover maps for assessing ecological...

The public sector holds large amounts of data of various areas such as social affairs, economy, or tourism. Various initiatives such as Open Government Data or the EU Directive on public sector information aim to make these data available for public and private service providers. Requirements for the provision of public sector data are defined by legal and organizational frameworks. Surprisingl...

In my view, however, what social scientists should value most highly is not transparency, but the integrity of research, understood as research that reflects an honest and systematic search for truths about society, the economy, or politics. In its various dimensions, transparency is a means toward that end. But it is only one of several such means and, like most of them, its various modalities...

Contextual Integrity has been proposed to define privacy in an unusual way. Most approaches take into account a sensitivity level or a “privacy circle”: the information is said to be private, public, ... and to be constrained to a given group of agents, e.g. “my friends”. In the opposite, Contextual Integrity states that any information transmission can trigger a privacy violation depending on ...

By adopting social exchange theory and the affect-infusion-model, the hypothesis is made that emotional intelligence (EI) will have an impact on three perceptions of trustworthiness – ability, integrity and benevolence – at the beginning of a relationship. It was also hypothesized that additional information would gradually displace EI in forming the above perceptions. The results reveal that E...

Contextual Integrity has been proposed to define privacy in an unusual way. Most approaches take into account a sensitivity level or a “privacy circle”: the information is said to be private or public and to be constrained to a given group of agents, e.g. “my friends”. In the opposite, Contextual Integrity states that any information transmission can trigger a privacy violation depending on the...

Several studies have identified the crucial role of trust in internet shopping behavior. Technical developments have produced new forms of e-commerce such as commerce through the largest worldwide social network: Shopping on Facebook. Our research investigates the role of trust in facebook-shopping. Our findings show that perceptions of the e-retailer’s benevolence and integrity have a stronger...